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Conveyance as follows : From Boston to Portland by Steamer, 
thence to Bryants Pond by Grand Trunk Railway, tlience to 
AnJover by stage, thence to Arm of the Lake by Thomas' Teams, 
thence to Middle or Upper Bams by Steamer. 

EETUE^ THE SAME WAT. 



The above Tickets are for sale only at the office of the 

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 

280 Washington Street, 



where all information about the Richardson and Rangeley Lakes 
will be cheerfully given. 



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Printing, neatly and promptly done. 

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CPJ(RMJCHEJ^EE LAKES, 
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RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND STAGE ROUTES, 
Time Tables, Table of Fares, List of Hotels, Board, and 

Other Valuable Information for the Sportsman, Tourist or Pleasure-Seeker. 



By CHARLES A. J. FARRAR, 

Author of "A Summer Ramble," "A Trip to Rangeleyp^t^, 



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In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



The Illustrations in this book were drawn and engraved express- 
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-^1 H E object of the Author of this book is to have the pub- 
lic become more familiar with the Rangeley Lake Region, 



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so celebrated for its fine hunting and trout fishing, and its 
beautiful and wonderful scenery ; as a pleasant and healthy 
place in which to spend a summer vacation it has no equal. Also, 
to call attention to Andover, Maine, as a Delightful Summer 
Eesort that is fast working its way to public favor, and which is 
destined at no very distant day to prove a powerful rival to some 
of the older and more pretentious mountain resorts. The price 
of living is lower, and carriage hire, and other extras are more 
than 60 per cent, lower, than at the fashionable mountain and sea- 
side resorts. 

This is the first Guide Book to Rangeley Lakes and Andover 
ever published, and it has been the author's aim not only to give 
the Routes to the Lakes, but to speak of all that would have any 
special interest to those visiting that part of the country. The il- 
lustrations are perfect, and the map which has been drawn express- 
ly for the book, is called by competent judges the most correct map 
of the lake region ever made. 

In preparing this book the author has had the assistance of a 
number of the guides in the lake region, whom he takes this op- 
portunity of thanking for information imparted by them. 



In this first edition, mistakes and omissions may occur. The 
author is desirous of being favored with any corrections that may 
be made from the personal knowledge of those familiar with the 
localities. Persons willing to make such communications, are re- 
quested to address them to the author of the Guide Book, P. 0. 
Box, 832, Boston, Mass. 

CHARLES A. J. FAERAR. 

Boston, ^lay 1, 1870. 



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BOSTON & MAINE R. R. 

Boston Passenger Station, Haymarket Square, 
Head of Washington Street. 



THE DIRECT AND POPULAR ROUTE 



TO 



Augusta^ Lewiston^ Bath^ Rockland 

Bangor, Belfast, Castine, Mount Desert, Machias, 
Calais, Eastport, St. John, N. B., Halifax, N. S. 

Bofth tonwaf , Gofhain, M, Mofitrea! & (juebec 

-VILA. ■FO'SJTX^J^lSrJD. 

TO TIIK 

White &. Franconia Mountains, via 

LAKE fIBKIPESAUKEE, WOLFBORO & CENTRE HARBOR, 
Or SO, COSWAY, flORDAll, », H,, PLVMOIJTH or LITTLETON, 

TO THE 

GREEN MOUNTAINS, 

Lakes ChamplaiUy Willoughhy and Memph^emagog, 

Newport, Vt., St, Albans, Ogdensburg, 

MONTREAL AND QUEBEC, 

Yia LAWREHCB, HMCHE2TSR & COHCORi:. 

Running directly to WELLS, OCEAN BLUFF (KENNEBUNK), 
OLD ORCHABD axd SCARBOROUGH BEACHES. 



THE DIRECT ROUTE TO THE 

Richardsons, Rangeleys and Umbagog Lakes. 

S. H. STEVENS, JAS. T. FURBER, 

Gen. Agent, Portland. Gen. Superintendent. 



The RANGELEY LAKES, 

YIl FAR MIKGTOH AHD PHILLIPS, 
THE ONLY DIRECT ROUTE 

TO THE 

RANGELEY LAKES, 

IS BY 

Maine Central Railroad 

TO 

FIRMINGTON, 

STAGE T O THE LAKES! 

Train leaves Portland daily at 1.40 P. M., or on arrival of trains 

from Boston, for 

Farmington and Rangeley Lakes, 

Arriving at Farmington at 6.35, making close connection 
with stage for Phillips and Greenvale. 

ROUND TRIP TICKETS, 

FROM BOSTON TO 

RAHDELEY LAKES k RETURN, 

ii^=- S 1 4 . o o . ^^r 

REMEMBER ! The Popular Route to this GREAT SPORTING 
REGION, the Favorite Haunt of the Deer and Trout, is by 

Eastern and Maine Central 

BAILROADS, 

"AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!" 



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Log Hut, inhabited by Bubier Family, Range! ey, Me., following 

page 11. 
"Camping Out" at the Mouth of River, Upper Dam, following 

page 15. * 

Rangeley Lake and Ram Island, following page 20. 
]\Iiddle Dam Camp, Lake Welokennebacook, following page 2-1. 
Silver Ripple Cascade, Black Brook, Andover, Me., following 

page 30. 
Mt. Sawyer and Sluice Dam, Black Brook Notch, Andover, Me., 

following page 35. 
The Upper Dam, following page 40. 
Camp Bellevue, (Betton's), following page 45. 
Camp Henry, Rangeley Outlet, following page 55. ' 

Indian Rock and Rangeley Stream, following page 60. 
Interior of Camp Kennebago, following page 66. 
Allertou Lodge, Bugle Cove, Lake Mooselucmaguntic, following 

page 71. 
Lake Mooselucmaguntic and Bemis Mountain Range, following 

page 76. 
Village of Andover, Me., with " Old Bald Pate" Mountain, fol- 
lowing page 87. 
The Flume, Cataract Brook, Andover, Me., following page 91. 
Devil's Den, Lake Road, Andover, Me., following page 98. 
Upper Fall, Cataract Brook, Andover, Me., following page 102. 
Sylvan Cascade, Cataract Brook, Andover, Me., following page 109. 
Andover House, Andover, Me., following page 117. 

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LIST OF STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS 

Rangeley Lakes and Andover, Me.^ 

FOR SALE BY 

No. 383 Washineton Street, (Room 30,) BOSTON. 

Order by Number. The View on this card is underlined. 

Orders by Mail or Express promptly filled. 

1. Barden House, Phillips, Me. 

2. Rangeley Hotel, Rangeley, Me. 

3. South East Arm of Rangeley Lake. 

4. Rangeley Lake and Ram Island. 

5. Log Hut Inhabited by Bubier family, Rangeley, Me. 

6. Camp Henry, Geo. Soulo, Proprietor, Rangeley Outlet. 

7. Steamer Molly-Chunkamunk, Rangeley Outlet. 

8. Indian Rock and Rangeley stream. 

9. Camp Kennebago, Head quarters Oquossoc Angling Association. 

10. Interior of Camp Kennebago. 

11. AUerton Lodge, Bugle Cove, Lake Mooselucmaguntic. 

12. Lake Mooselucmaguntic and Bemis Mountain range. 

13. Camp Beraa, mouth of Bemis stream. 

14. George S. Page's Camp, Bemis stream. 

15. Upper Dam. 

16. Camp Bellevue, (Betton's) Lake Molechunkamunk. 

17. Near view of Camp Bellevue, (Betton's.) 

18. Lake Molechunkamunk, S. E. view from Betton's Camp. 

19. Middle Dam Camp, Lake Welokennebacook. 

20. Mt. Sawyer, and Sluice Dam, Black Brook Notch, Andover, Me. 

21. Mt. Blue, Black Brook Notch, on Lake Road, Andover, Me. 

22. Andover House, Andover, Me. 

23. Silver Ripple Cascade, Black Brook, Lake Road, Andover, Me. 

24. Hermit Falls, Black Brook, Lake Road, Andover, Me. 

25. Devil's Dfen. " " •' " 

26. Village of Andover, Me. 

27. " " with " Old Bald Pate " Mountain. 

28. Lower Fall, Cataract Brook, Andover, Me. 

29. Upper Fall, " " " « 

30. Sylvan Cascade, " " " " 

31. The Flume, " " " « 

32. " Camping Out " at Mouth of River, Upper Dam. 

PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. 

4®~ Fifty or more additional Views Avill be added to the above List the pres- 
ent season. They will embrace scenes on Lake Umbagog, the Magallowat and 
Androscoggin Rivers, Parmachenee Lake, Dixville Notch, Grafton and Bear 
River Notch, Lake Kennebago, Sandy River, and the towns of Phillips, Beth- 
el, Upton, and Andover. 

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SEASOJ!f OF SUMMER TRAVEL, 1876. 

Bryants Pond, Rumford, 

ANDOVER, 

A FIBST-CUSS LINE OF STJGES, 

Makes daily connections with trains on Grand Trunk Railroad, between 
Bryants Pond and Andover. This is an old established line, and has been in 
charge of the present proprietors, Messrs. Tuttle and Woodman, for many years. 
Fine coaches, good horses and experienced drivers, are to be found on this line 
which is one of the most pleasant stage routes in this country. The stage leaves 
the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot daily, on the arrival of train from Boston, 
which is due at 4 30 P. M., for Andover. At Rumford, three-quarters of an hour 
is given for supper. The time between Bryants Pond and Andover is tliree 
hours. Fare from Bryants Pond to Rumford 75 cents, From Bryants Pond 
to Andover $1.50. 

Returning the stage leaves tho Andover House each morning, arriving at 
Bryants Pond in time to connect with through trains for Boston. 



Bryants Pond, Rumford Centre, East Rumford, 
Mexico and Dixfield. 

stage leaves Railroad Depot at Bryants Pond, every 

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, 

on arrival of train from Boston, for the above places, returning every 

■^ESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, 

reaching Bryants Pond in time to connect with through train for Boston. 
Stage connects at Mexico, with stages for ROXBURY and BYRON. 
Fare from Bryants Pond to Rumford Centre, .75 

East Rumford, $1.00 

" " " Mexico, 1.25 

" " Dixfield, 1.50 

TUTTLE & WOODMAN, 

JProprietora. 

Bryants Pond, June 1, 1876. 



GROVETON, N. H. 

OPPOSITE GRAND TRUNK R. R. DEPOT. 



CANNING H. HATCH, Proprietor. 

TRANSIENT BOARD, TWO DOLLARS PER DAY. 
$7.00 TO $10.00 PER WEEK. 



This house is situated in the pleasant village of Groveton, and command 
many beautiful views. It has been newly fitted up and furnished, and has good 
accommodations for 50 guests. Only half a mile from Groveton Junction, 
■where the B. C. & M. Railroad connects with the Grand Trunk. A Free Coach 
is run to and from the depot on the arrival and departure of trains. The Percy 
Peaks are an object of interest in this vicinity. The Amnionoosuc and other 
streams furnishes excellent trout fishing. A good livery stable ia connected 
with the house, where teams can be hired at low prices. 




ilX HOWS 

DlXVIIilil KOTOH, H. H. 

aEORaE PARSONS, Proprietor, 

TERMS, $2.00 PER DAY. 



ITOW OPEN FOR SUMMER TR&^EL. 



This new and commodious Hotel, stands upon a beautiful slope in full view 
of some of the finest scenery in New England. Surrounded by mountains and 
lakes unsurpassed for their grandeur and beauty, and occupying a central point 
for the finest fishing and hunting to be found in this region of the country^ 
All the accessories necessary for the sportsmen can be found with the Proprietor. 
Teams always in readiness to take guests to any part desired. A beautiful 
drive of seven miles takes you to the noted Diamond Pond, ten to Errol Dam, 
three miles by Bridal Path to Nathan's Pond, and five to Diamond Stream. 



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PAGE 



CHAPTER I— Routes from New York to Boston. .... 

CHAPTER II— The Rangeley Lakes. 

CHAPTER III— Routes from Boston to the Lake Region. The Lower Route. 
CHAPTER IV— From Lake Umbagog to the Middle Dam. . 
CHAPTER V— The Middle Route. From Boston to Andover, Me, 
CHAPTER VI— From Andover to the Arm of the Lake. 
CHAPTER VII— From the Arm of the Lake to the Upper Dam. 
CHAPTER VIII— The Upper Dam and Richardson Pond. 
CHAPTER IX— The Upper Route. From Boston to Phillips, Me. 

CHAPTER X— From Phillips to Rangeley Outlet 

CHAPTER XI— Rangeley Outlet to Indian Rock, and Bugle Cove. 

CHAPTER XII— From Bugle Cove to Bemis Stream. 

CHAPTER XIII— From Bemis Stream to the Upper Dam. 

CHAPTER XIV— Route Via North Stratford, Colebrook, Dixville Notch 

and Errol. ......... 

CHAPTER XV — Umbagog and Richardson Lakes, Via Boston, Concord 

and Montreal Railroad. ...... 

CHAPTER XVI — From the White Mountains to the Rangeley Lake Region, 

Via Dixville Notch and Errol. ...... 

CHAPTER XVII — Parmacheuee Lake and Magalloway River. The Routes, 

Expense, Scenery, Fishing, Hunting, <fec. .... 
CHAPTER XVIII— Andover, Maine, as a Summer Resort. . 
CHAPTER XIX— Pleasant Drives to Roxbury Pond, Black Brook Notch, 

"White Cap Mountain, and Farmer's Ilill. .... 
CHAPTER XX— Waterfalls and Cascades. The Cataracts, Upper and 

Lower Falls, and Flume. ....... 

CHAPTER XXI— Bald Pate Mountain. The Ascent and View from its 

Summit. ........ 

CHAPTER XXII— Excursions to Dunn's Notch, and First B Hill, Upton. . 
CHAPTER XXIII — Excursions to Lake Umbagog, Magalloway River and 

Dixville Notch. ....... 

CHAPTER XXIV— Trout Fishing 



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12 
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21 
25 
30 
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39 
46 
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59 
61 

63 

65 

67 

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81 

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96 

99 
103 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 
CHAPTER XXV— Game and Game-Fish Lavrs of Maine. . . 106 

CHAPTER XXVI— Game and Game-Fish Laws of New Hampshire. . 110 

CHAPTER XXVII— Supplementary Notes ..... 113 

CHAPTER XXVIII— List of Hotels, and price of board. . . .120 

CHAPTER XXIX— Table of Fare? and Round Trip Excursion Tickets. 122 




ANDOVER, MAINE. 



ALBERT W. THOMAS, Proprietor. 



Only 12 miles from the Richardson Lakes, and the most 
Direct Route to the 

MIDDLE AND UPPER DAMS, 

THE TWO BEST PLACES FOR 




In the Entire Lake Region. 



This popular Hotel is now open for the summer travel, and is capable of giv- 
ing good accommodations to fifty guests. It is most desirably situated in the 
charming village of Andover, 21 miles from Bryants Pond, a station on tlie 
Grand Trunk Road, with which it is connected by a first-class line of stages. 

ONLY 12 HOURS FROM BOSTON. 

The house commands a very fine riew of the mountains by which it is entire- 
ly surrounded. There are many beautiful walks and drives in the vicinity, and 
very pleasant excursions may be made by means of private teams to various 
places, within a radius of five to twenty miles. 

The hotel is locatnd in the centre of the village, and near post-office, and tele- 
graph-office, churches, stores, etc. 

The trout brooks about .\ndover,are all within easy walking or riding distance 
of the Hotel, and furnish excellent sport. 

Terms $2.00 per day. 
$7 to 10 by the week. 

Parties going to the Richardson or Rangeley Lakes will be furnished with 
teams, guides and boats, by Mr. Thomas, at reasonable prices. 

Any further information in regard to Andover or the Lakes will be cheer- 
fully furnished, by Mr. Thomas. 



PARSOHS HOUiSE, 

COLEBROOK, K. H- 



TERMS: $2.00 to $2.50 per Day, transient, and from $7.00 to 
$10.00 per Week, according to Rooms. 



A First-class Livery, Billiard Hall, and 
Telegraph Office connected with the House. 



Stages leave daily for North Stratford, connecting with trains 
on Grand Trunk Railroad, also four times a week for Errol Dam, 
connecting with Steamer Diamond on Lake Umbagog, for Middle 
Dam and Magalloway Piiver, 



This House is large and commodious, and has been improved in many re 
spects the past season. It is pleasantly situated, surrounded by mountain and 
lake scenery, intersected with the most beautiful drires in New England. 

This Ilotel is situated on the direct road to 

the most grand and romantic mountain pass in New England. This pass 
is more Alpine in character than any in the White Mountain Region. 

Among the places of interest in the vicinity of Colebrook, are Beaver Brook 
Cascade, two miles from the Hotel, Monadnock Mountain, half a mile from the 
Hotel, Dixville Notch, Miles Cascade, Table Rock, Demon Pond, the Flume, and 
the Old Man of the Mountain, ten miles from the Hotel. 



CHAPTER I. 



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I. New York to Boston, via Stonington and Providence ; on 
Long Island Sound by steamboat to Stonington ; thence to Provi- 
dence and Boston by rail, arriving at Boston at six o'clock, A. M. 
Fare $1.00. 

The fine steamers Stonington, Narragansett and Ehode Is- 
land leave pier 33 North River in New York, at five o'clock in the 
afternoon, arriving at Stonington about two o'clock in the morn- 
ing. A Reclining Chair Car accompanies the train from Stoning- 
ton to Boston, in which the traveler can take an excellent nap. 
These boats are strong and safe, and are furnished with every 
comfort and convenience for the traveling public. By this route 
you avoid the rough passage around Point Judith. 

Leaving the pier at the hour spoken of, the passage is made 
through the East River into Long Island Sound before sunset. 
On one side you pass the water front of Brooklyn, a conspicuous 
feature of the landscape, being the tall granite column which 
is to hold one end of the new suspension-bridge, Williamsburg, 
Green Point, Astoria, and Halleck's Point, now somewhat famous 
for the excavations that are being made from it, under the rocks 
that obstruct the Hell-gate passage, and on the other the crowded 
piers and streets of New York, the Battery and Castle Garden, 
the pretty islands, Blackwell's, Randall's, Ward's, and others, — 
covered with fine buildings and beautiful gardens, the whole form- 
ing a delightful panorama, pleasing to the eye of the traveler to 
dwell upon. 

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10 FARRAKS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

II. New York and Boston, via Newport and Fall Pdver, on 
Long Island Sound by steamboat, from Newport or Fall Biver by 
rail, arriving at Boston at 6.60 A. M. 

The splendid steamers Bristol and Providence leave pier 28 
North River, daily at five P. M., ari-iving at Fall River about four 
o'clock A. M. A fine band of music accompanies each of these 
steamers during the summer season. The route is over the entire 
length of Long Island Sound and a part of Naragansett Bay. The 
distance by boat is more, and that by rail less, than by either of 
the other routes, though the time and fare are the same as by the 
Stonington Line. 

III. New York to Boston, via New London and Norwich, on 
Long Island Sound to New London ; thence by rail over the Bos- 
ton, Hartford and Erie Railroad, arriving at Boston at six o'clock 
A. M. Fare $3.00. 

The first-class steamers City of Boston and City of New York, 
leave pier 39 North River, at five P. M., arriving at New London 
at one A. M. Here you take the train which starts for Boston at 
two o'clock. 

IV. New York to Boston, by railroad via New Haven, New 
London, and Providence. This is known as the Shore Line. The 
route lies along the shore of Long Island to New London, and 
thence to Boston over the Stonington, and Boston and Providence 
Railroads. The fare is $G.OO. 

The cars leave New York from the Grand Central Depot, at 1 
P. M., and 10 P. M., arriving in Boston at 9 P. M. and 7 A. M. 
The time to Boston is seven hours by the day train, and eight hours 
by the night train. Wagner's elegant sleeping cars accompany the 
night train. On Sunday evening the train leaves at 10 o'clock. 

Y. New York to Boston, by railroad, via New Haven, Hart- 
ford, Springfield, and Worcester. 

The New York and Boston Express Line, formed by the New 
York and New Haven, New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield, 
and Boston and Albany Railroads. The train leaves at 8 and 
10 A. M., and 3, and 9 P. M., from the same depot in New York 
as the Shore Line, running as far as New Haven, then following 
up the the Connecticut River to Springfield, where it connects with 



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BOSTON. 



Books of every description, from a Juvenile Reader 
to an Imperial Dictionary, carefully composed, read, 
and stereotyped either in copper or type-metal. 

Cuts, Borders, Designs, Bill-Heads, &c., electrotyped, 
and correctly mounted for the printer's use. 

The patronage of Book-Publishers, Authors, Printers, 
and the Public generally, is solicited. 

Orders addressed to 

QEORGE DEAM, Agent. 



liT O T I a EI 



The undersigned hereby gives public notice that he will drive a 
Stage in connection with the 

GRAND TRUNK RAILROAD 

the present season, from 

Bethel Depot, Me., 

to H. R. Godwin's Hotel, on 

known as the Lake House, where the best of accommodations Avill 
be oflfered the traveling public. The above Stage will connect 

with the 

HEW STEAMIR DIAMOKD 

on said lake, affording conveyance to parties to 

ALL POINTS ON THE LAKE 

AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY. 

WILL LEAVE BETHEL, EVERY 

Monday, Wednday, Thursday and Pfiday, 

on arrival of the trains from Boston, and Return every 

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 

in season to connect with outward bound trains for Boston. 

ig@* ACCOMMODATIONS FOR FISHING PARTIES made a 
Specialty. Extra Teams always ready to be furnished to those 
who wish from the Bethel House Stable. 

O. 0. LITTLEHALE. 

Bethel, May Ist, 1876. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 



11 



Boston by the Boston and Albany Railroad. Trains arrive in Bos- 
ton at 4.50, 5.40, and 11 P. M., and at 6.15 A. M. Comfortable 
sleeping cars are connected with the night trains. The fare is 
$6.00. Sunday trains leaves New York at 7 P. M., arriving in 
Boston at 4 A. M. 

VI. Nkw York to Boston, via New Haven and Miadletown, 
also, via Hartford and Williamantic. This line is known as the 
New York and New England Bailroad line, and is formed by the 
New York and New Haven, and New England Railroads. Cars 
leave the Grand Central Railroad Depot, 42d Street, New York, at 
10 A. M., arriving in Boston at 6.45 P. M. by either route. 
Fare $6.00. 




CHAPTER IT. 






II E chain of lakes known as the IIangk- 
5^ LEY Lakes, lie near the western bound- 
ary of Maine, in Franklin and Oxford counties. The lower lake 
of the chain, Umbagog, is more than half in Coos county, New 
Hampshire. The lakes are known severally, as Rangeley, or 
Oquossoc, Cupsuptic, Mooselucmaguntic, or the Gkeat Lake, 
INIoLECHUNKAMUNK, or the Upper Richardson Lake, Weloken- 
nebacook, or the Lower Richardson Lake, and Umbagog. 
These six lakes are all connected by narrows or streams, forming 
one continuous water communication for about fifty miles. 

The country about the northern shore of Rangeley and the 
southern shore of Umbagog, is partially cleared up, and some very 
good farms have been started ; all the rest of the country in the 
lake region is an unbroken wilderness known only by the hunter 
or logger. Game and fish in abundance are found through all the 
district, and the number of adventurers who penetrate these rug- 
ged wilds in summer is every year on the increase. The moun- 

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STJl^^y[:DaI^ szej^soist, i876. 



BARB EN HOUSE, 

PHILLIPS, MAINE, 

SAMUEL FARMER, Proprietor. 



The rout* to Rangeiet Lakes by -way of Phillips is the only direct "w^ay 
■whereby good comfortable public conveyance is afforded the entire distance, 
while the trip from Fakmingtox up the Sandt River Yallet (the Garden of 
Maine) ia picturesque in the extreme. The trip to all the upper lakes and big 
dam is made this ■way,muchquicker, easier, and cheaper than by any other route. 

PniLLirs as a Summer Resort is fast coming into notoriety, situated as it is in 
the Talley of the Sandy River, and surrounded by the most magnificent moun- 
tains in Maine, the summits of which are not surpassed in altitude, by only one 
in the State. Mounts Blue, Saddleback and Abram, are the most prominent. 

Mount Blue is easy of access from the village, being less than an hour's drive 
to within three quarters of a mile of its summit, with a good walking path to 
the top. It commands a very fine view, being the first land that meets the eye 
of the mariner as he approaches the coast of Maine. 

The numerous mountain ponds, brooks, and streams, tributaries to the Sandy 
River, afford the finest of Brook Trout Fishing, a single sportsman often tak- 
ing a hundred in a day. Phillips not only offers superior inducements to pa- 
trons of the rod and gun, but the mountain air and Mineral Springs have 
proved very eflBcacious to those in pursuit of health, rest and pleasure. 

The Barden House has been enlarged and improved the past season ; the new 
dining-room has a capacity to Beat nearly one hundred guests. A good livery 
stable is connected with the house, and Mr. Farmer is prepared to convey parties 
to any other points in the vicinity. 

The house is situated in the centre of the village, near Post OflBce and Tele- 
graph Office, churches, stores, Ac. 

The hotel is open all the year, so that those who wish can spend the delight- 
ful months of September and October, when the autumn leaves of every color 
and hue gild all sides of the hills and mountains, forming a picture second only 
to Paradise. Partridge hunting is only allowed in these months, when tons are 
shipped annually to Boston and other cities from Phillips. 

The proprietor gives his personal attention to his guests, and hopes by liberal 
treatment to merit the approbation of the traveling public. Prices for board 
from one to two dollars per day, or according to rooms, and length of stay. 

Phillips is easy of access from Boston, by Eastern, or Boston and Maine 
Railroads, or steamer to Portland, Maine Central Railroad to Farmington, and 
stage to Phillips. The trip from Boston to Phillips is made in eleven hours by 
rail and stage. All inquiries by letter promptly nnswered. 



RAXGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 13 

tains are well-covered with a growth of trees — birch, beech, 
maple, ash, hemlock, spruce, fir, cedar and pine, in the higher 
lands ; and along the courses of the streams, almost impenetrable 
thickets of spruce, hemlock and cedar. The first aflFords the most 
valuable timber, which is run down the various streams in the 
time of the spring freshets, and thence across the lakes. 

The other two lakes mentioned in this Guide while not belong- 
ing to the Rangeley chain, are still connected with them. Ken- 
NKBAGO, the smallest of the two, lies about fourteen miles north 
of CuPSUPTic, and is connected with that lake by the Kenne- 
BAGO River, which serves as an outlet for its waters. It is one 
of the prettiest lakes in Maine, a perfect little gem, and its waters 
are well stocked with the speckled trout for which the region is 
famous. Parties wishing to visit Kennebago, can always procure 
guides of Mr. E. Hinkley, at the Rangeley House, (Rangeley 
City.) This is the easiest point from which to reach Kennebago 
Lake. If one wishes to visit Kennebago from Camp Henry, they 
can obtain a guide from Mr. Soule. 

Parmachenee Lake lies about seventy miles north of Umbagog, 
in a vast wilderness, that extends for miles beyond. It is con- 
nected with the latter lake by the Magalloway River, which 
serves as its outlet. It is not so large as the most of the Range- 
ley Lakes, but like Kennebago, it has a peculiar beauty of its 
own. It is fast coming into notice with sportsmen and fishermen, 
and for that reason, further on, we have devoted several pages to 
it. Its waters are filled with trout, and the forest about it abounds 
with every variety of game from the lively little squirrel, to the 
lordly moose. The scenery in the locality is enchanting, and 
being so far beyond the bound of civilization, there is a charm 
and romance in visiting this lake, that you will not meet with 
about the others. 

As part of Umbagog Lake and some of the trout streams lie in 
New Hampshire, we give in the back part of the Guide, the Game 
and Fish Laws of both Maine and New Hampshire, knowing they 
will be of interest to persons visiting these waters. 

As a great many people seem to have an idea that it requires no 
effort to catch ten pound trout, or to shoot deer or moose, we as- 



14 FAREAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

sure them that patience and experience are both necessary requi- 
sites to success in hunting and fishing. 

Theodore Winthrop in some of his writings has most happily 
taken off the green sportsman in the Adirondack region, and as 
what he has so truthfully portrayed is equally applicable to the 
Lake Region of Maine, we give it here. He says : 

" There, in the forest you see the stag of ten trots, coquetting 
with greenhorns. He likes the excitement of being shot at and 
missed. He enjoys the smell of powder in a battle where he is 
always safe. He hears greenhorn blundering through the woods, 
stopping to growl at briers, stopping to revive his courage with 
the Dutch supplement. The stag of ten awaits his foe in a glade. 
The foe arrives, sees the antlered monarch, and is panic-struck. 
He watches him prance and strike the ground with his hoofs. 
He slowly recovers heart, takes a pull at his flask, rests his gun 
upon a log, and begins to study his mark. The stag will not 
stand still. Greenhorn is baffled. At last his target turns and 
carefully exposes that region of his body where greenhorn has 
read lies the heart. Just about to fire, he catches the eye of the 
stag winking futility into his elaborate aim. His blunderbuss 
jerks upward. A shower of cut leaves floats through the smoke, 
from a tree thirty feet overhead. Then, with a mild eyed melan- 
choly look of reproachful contempt, the stag turns away, and wan- 
ders off to sleep in quiet coverts far within the wood. He has 
fled, while for greenhorn no trophy remains. Antlers have nodded 
to the sportsman ; a short tail has disappeared before his eyes ; — 
he has seen something, but has nothing to show. Whereupon he 
buys a couple of pairs of ancient weather-bleached horns from 
some colonist, and, nailing them up at impossible angles on the 
wall of his city den, humbugs brother-Cockneys with tales tf 
hunting, and has for life his special legend, < How I shot my first 
deer in the Adirondacks,' " or at Rangeley Lakes, as the case may 
be. 

Ko where in this country will the people afflicted with the 
"camping-out" fever, find a more convenient, or more pleasant 
place to gratify it, than the Rangeley Lake region. Here, four of 
the indispensible requisites of tent life, viz., good clear water. 



FALL RIVER LINE 

(OLD COLONY R. R. cS: S. B. GO'S) 

BETWEEN NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 

VIA 

FALL RIVER AND NEWPORT. 



Palace Steam ers Bristo l k ProYidence 

THE GREAT DIRECT ROUTE BETWEEN 

WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, 

PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK, 



PORTLAND and BANCOR, HE. ; 
mLiiiDP.A.s:, asr. s. ; so?, cronasr, ist. b. ; 

THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, 

PORTSMOUTH AND CONCORD, N. H.; 

BOSTON, LOWELL, LAAVEENCE, 

NEW BEDFORD, PLYMOUTH, CAPE COD, 



MARTHA'S VINEYARD & NANTUCKET, Mass ; 
And NE WPORT , R. I. 

PARLOR CARS, AIR BRAKES, MIL LER PLATFORMS. 

Only 49 miles of Rail between New York and Boston. 

Sm-A FULL NIGHT'S REST AND NO NIGHT CHANGES, -^g 

Pier 28 North River, Cor. South & Kneeland Sts. 

Leave 5 P. M. Leave 4.30 and 6 P. M. 

BORDEN & LOVELL, Agents, 0. C. S. B. Co., NEW YORK 
GEO. L. CONNOR, Gen. Pass. Agt. " " «' 

J. SPRAGUE, Jr., Gen. Pass. Agt. 0. C. R. R., BOSTON. 
J. R. KENDRICK, Supt. 



CHARLES E. WHEELER, 



DEALER IN 





OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, 

Guns, Pistols and Ammunition. 



MANUFACTURER OF SPLIT 





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Which for beauty of finish, elasticity and durability, are unsurpassed. These 
Bods are made of split bamboo with German silver mountings. They aie ex" 
tremely light, and only M-eigh from STX to EIGHT OUNCES. 

A specialty made of manufacturing Rods for the trade. Orders by mail 
promijtly attended to. 

WM. JOSLYN & CO. 

liwjjijisfe mil %wiiiti{mm, 



AND DEALERS IN 



BOOKS, STATIOHERY, FAICT GOODS, AHD 
PAINTS AND PAINTERS' MATERIALS. 

FISHING TACKLE. 

Parties visiting here can find at this house Complete Outfits in 
the tackle line from the tinniest Hook, to the finest Fly Rod, at 
reasonable prices. 

COLEBROOK, N. H. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 15 



plenty of fire-wood, game, and fish, are always to be found, and 
the cosy little nooks, and charming spots, on the shores of the 
lakes, or the banks of the streams, each and all commanding some 
picturesque view, where one can pitch a tent, are simply innumer- 
able. 

If one could be always sure of pleasant weather, tent life would 
be relieved of its greatest drawback. But we cannot control the 
elements, whatever else we may bring under subjection, and 
" camping out" in a two or three days' storm, takes the good na- 
ture out of the most pleasant and philosophic individual. It is 
far worse where there are ladies in the party, than if it is com- 
posed entirely of gentlemen. For although the sterner sex can 
push about in the wet under-brush, and go fishing in the rain, the 
ladies are compelled to sit moping in a damp tent, and wishing for 
nothing so much in the world, as to see the sun shine once more. 

The writer has tried " camping out" for two seasons, and while 
he does not deny that there is a great deal of fun and enjoyment 
in it, still he holds to the opinion that it is better and cheaper to 
stop at the camps about the lakes, and pay $1.50 to $2.00 per day 
for board, and be sure of a comfortable bed at night, and a roof 
over your head in a storm. The accommodations at one of these 
camps in the wilderness, are so different from what you meet with 
at home, that it has a novelty almost equal to tent life, with none 
of its disagreeable features. However inspired people may be 
with life in the woods, they soon get tired of washing dishes, 
cooking meals, cutting wood, lugging water, and the various routine 
of duty that is inseparable from life in a tent. But if you must 
" camp out," take along one or two guides to do the work and the 
cooking, and then you are free from care, and may hope for an 
enjoyable time if you have pleasant weather. On the following 
page we present an illustration of a party camping out on the 
shore of the upper Bichardson Lake, at the mouth of the Biver. 
Our artist has been successful in making a spirited sketch of the 
scene, which was photographed expressly for this book. 



CHAPTER III. 



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ERSONS visiting the Lakes from 
Canada, or the AVest, will find it 
most convenient to take the Grand 
Trunk Railroad to North Stratford, 
Bethel, or Bryant's Pond, and then con- 
tinue their journey according to the 
routes hereinafter described. 

Parties from New York city, of whom 
there are many visiting the Lakes each sea- 
son, have a choice of several routes to Bos- 
ton, all of which have been previously described. Arriving in 
Boston, the traveler has choice of five di.stiuct routes by which 
the lake country can be reached. The first we will designate as 

THE LOWER ROUTE. 

Take the cars at the Eastern Railroad Depot on Causeway street, 
opposite Friend street. The train starts at 9.00 A. M., and if you 
wish to travel at luxurious ease, provide yourself with a seat in 
one of the Pullman Palace Cars, which will cost you 60 cents in 
addition to the price of the regular ticket, and the extra expense 
of which, you will be more than compensated for, by ^he in- 

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RICHARDSON and RANG-ELEY LAKES 

DIRECT LINE BE TWEEN PORTL AND & NEW YORK. 

MAINE STEAMSHIP CO'S 



"Will until further notice leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, every MONDAY and 
THURSDAY, at 6 1*. M .and leave Pier 88 East River, New York, every MONDAY 
and THURSDAY at 4 P. M. The Eleanora is a new steamer, just built for this 
route, and both she and the Franconia are fitted up with fine accommodations 
for passengers, making this the most convenient and comfortable route for trav- 
elers between New York and Maine. These steamers will touch at Tineyard 
Haven during the summer months on their passage to and from New York. 
Passage in State Room $5.00, meals extra. 

HENRY FOX, General Agent, Portland. 

J. F. AMES, Agent, Pier 38, E. R., New York. 




SITUATED AT THE BASE OF MOUNT FORIST. 

B IE IR Xj 1 3 ^ F-A-XjXj S.; i^.s:. 

M. C. FO RIST, - Proprietor, 

Terms, $1.50 per da y. From $7.0 to 10.00 per week. 

This house is pleasantly situated in the midst of ISIountain and 
River Scenery. The celebrated Berlin Falls are Avithin seventy 
rods of the Hotel. No finer view of the White Mountains can be 
obtained anywhere in the state than from this Hotel. The pleasure 
drives in the immediate vicinity are unsurpassed. It is only six 
miles from Gorham, An excellent Livery Stable is connected with 
the House, and teams may be obtained at reasonable prices. This 
locality is noted for its fine 

and in the Fall there is excellent shooting within a short distance 
of the House. The Hotel is centrally located, near post-ofiSce, 
telegraph, stores, etc. 



DEALER IN 

Powder, Shot, Caps, Flasks, and Fishing Tackle, 

Parties visiting the Lakes, who intend camping out, can purchase everything 
needed in the shape of stores, from Mr. French at reasonable prices. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 



17 



creased comfort, freedom from dust and heat, and lack of care of 
any little bundles or packages you may have with you, all such 
being turned over to tlie care of the conductor. Leaving the de- 
pot, you pass rapidly through Charlestown, Somerville, Everett, 
Chelsea, Lynn, Swampscott, Newburyport, Hampton, Portsmouth, 
Kittery, Wells, Biddeford, and Kennebunk, reaching Portland 
at 12.45, four and one quarter hours from Boston, a distance of 108 
miles. Or you may take the cars from the Boston and Maine 
Railroad Depot, in Haymarket Square, at the foot of Washington 
street, at 8.45, A. M., and passing through Charlestown, Somer- 
ville, Maiden, Melrose, Lawrence, Haverhill, Exeter, So. New- 
market, Dover, Salmon Falls, No. Berwick, Kennebunk, Biddeford, 
Saco, and Old Orchard Beach, arriving in Portland at the same time 
as by the Eastern road, and occupying the same length of time 
for the first stage of the journey. A magnificent Parlor Car ac- 
companies this train, and passengers may take advantage of all 
its conveniences, for an additional charge of 60 cents. On reach- 
ing Portland by either route, you are carried across the city to 
the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot, where you change cars. 

Or you may leave Boston by one of the Portland Li«e of Steam- 
ers from the foot of India Wharf, at 7 o'clock, P. M., arriving in 
Portland early the next morning, in time to connect with either 
the 7 A. M., or 1.20 P. M. trains on the Grand Trunk Railroad. 
One dollar is saved on a ticket each way between Portland and 
Boston by boat. You arrive in Portland about 5 o'clock in the 
morning, giving ample time to get breakfast, and see all of inter- 
est in the city. Or after breakfast, you may take the morning 
train, and go up to Bryants Pond or Bethel, and wait over in either 
place, as the stages only connect with the afternoon train. 

Where a large party are going together, and prefer to go from 
Boston to Portland by boat, they may make arrangements with 
the stage-drivers at Bethel, or Bryant's Pond, (by writing them a 
few days in advance of their trip,) to meet the morning train and 
push through, making a saving of about six hours' time. An ex- 
tra stage fare will usually be charged in such a case. Or private 
conveyance may always be procured, but at greater cost, than by 
stage. 



18 FARRAKS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

Before leaving the Grand Trunk Depot on the 1,20 train, the 
traveler usually has time for a hasty lunch, there being a dining- 
saloon in the depot. 

Again one may avail themselves of the modern comforts of the 
Pullman Palace Car, as one will be found attached to the train. 

The ride from Portland is vei-y pleasant, and you pass through 
the towns of Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Pownal, New 
Gloucester, Danville Junction, Mechanic Falls, Oxford, South 
Paris, Bryant's Pond, Locke's INIills, reaching Bethel, 70 miles 
from Portland, and 178 from Boston, at five o'clock. 

The stage leaves the Bethel House for Upton, every day but 
Saturday and Sunday, the first thing after supper, arriving at Up- 
ton, distant 26 miles, about eleven o'clock. The fare is $2.50. 
The road is hilly much of the way, but the scenery is fine, and the 
part of the ride taken before dark is enjoyable. Starting from 
the village you cross the Androscoggin River, over a long covered 
bridge, and bowl merrily along the pleasant road. You soon come 
to the Sunday River, a tributary of the Androscoggin, which is 
also crossed by means of a bridge, and a little farther on the Bear 
River bridgt, passing the Bear Ptiver tavern, and enter the town 
of Newry, a small place of a few hundred inhabitants. There is 
a hotel here known as the Poplar Tavern. The scenery at this 
place begins to grow wilder. The mountains appear nearer and 
more rugged. The road follows the narrow valley of Bear River, and 
as you ride along you notice to the west, a high peak, known as 
" Bear River AVhitecap," and to the east, rises the *' Great Ledge," 
a tough-looking bare peak of considerable height. 

The river here presents a picturesque appearance, it being a 
rapid torrent, broken by numerous falls, and rushes along its 
rocky bed, as if impatient of restraint. After heavy rains it is 
often difficult for- the stage to pass. 

Still onward you go, the dark green peaks of Mount Saddle- 
back, directly ahead, looking down upon you in majestic grandeur, 
and the loftier summit of Speckled Mountain, towering far above 
you to the west. Here quite a curiosity awaits you, by the name 
of "Screw Auger Falls." It is but a short distance from the road, 
and well worth a visit. An enormous granite ledge fills the whole 



Jarminflion, jjltillip^ md f^n^dt^ |alia. 



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PROPRIETORS OP THE 



FIRST CLASS STAGE L!NE 

BETWEEN 

FARMINGTON AND PHILLIPS. 

IF-A-IiE $1.50. 

This is an old established route, and the line is thoroughly equipped with fine 
and comfortable coaches, a large stud of steady and well-trained horses, and 
careful and experienced drivers. " Uncle John," the veteran driver still remains 
in the employ of Messrs. Clark and Son, and it is safe to say, that if a team can 
be driven from Farmington to Phillips, and all the passengers landed safely at 
the Barden House, John is the man to do it. Express matter promptly for- 
warded. Information furnished to any parties who wish to visit the lakes. 

PHILLIPS AHD GREEHYALE, 

HEAD OF EAE'GELET LAKE. 



An Excellent Line of Stages, 



OWNED BY 



MR. H. T. KIMBALL, 

Is run from the Barden House in Phillips, to the Greenvale House, at the head 
of Rangeley Lake. The fare is $2.00. Stages leave Phillips for Greenvale at 8 
A. M., arriving at the hotel at noon. Returning, leave the Greenvale House 
for Phillips at 2 P. M., arriving at the latter place at 6 o'clock. Parties who 
prefer single teams to a seat in the coach, can be furnished with a private con- 
veyance by Mr. Kimball at a reasonable price. 



Northern Steamboat Co. 

MHGEL EY LAKE , MAIM, 
STEAMERS 

The Steamers of this Company will connect daily with the Stages 
to and from 

FARMINGTON, 

FOR 

|[mtfl^ka ^tttkt, ^m\m %n\> mH 

The steamer Oquossoc on the Great Lake will be available for 
parties at any time outside of regular trips. This route, (via 
Farmington,) is the 

iimi QUICKKT, m CIEIIPEST ROUTE 



-TO THE- 



"o* y :p E ^ n Jk 
And all Points on the Great Lake. 

ROUND TRIP TICKETS, 

From Greenvale House, (head of Kangeley Lake) to Upper Dam, 
and Return, ^3.00. Time from Greenvale to Upper Dam, 
two hours and a half. 

C W. HOWARD, Agent 



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bottom of the gorge ; through this the stream has worn a large 
spiral channel. This canon, as one may appropriately term it, is 
about one hundred feet in length, and so narrow at some points 
that one can leap across it. Its greatest depth cannot be far from 
seventy feet, and the sides are as smooth as polished marble. 
Through the rock run veins of white quartz, mingled with other 
minerals. 

It is in such places as this that one gets some idea of the vast 
power of water, and it must have taken years to do the work that 
is still going on here. 

A short distance beyond the falls, there is another curiosity, 
close beside the road, but half hidden by the shubbery, known 
locally as " The Jail." It is an abyss, semi-circular in shape, the 
sides being smooth and of great height. A place into which one 
can fall easily, but from which they would find considerable diffi- 
culty to get out. Formerly the river ran through it, wearing 
this great cavity, but it has now made for itself a new channel 
some rods to the westward. xVbout a mile beyond you reach Graf- 
ton Notch, which is destined to become famous in the eye of the 
tourist. 

In the narrowest part of the Notch, you find Bear Kiver dwin- 
dled to a noisy brook, that rushes and roars hoarsely along the 
ravine. The road crosses the stream some half dozen times, the 
bridges being mostly built of logs, with no protecting rail along 
the sides. 

A little farther on, a short distance from the road, is another 
wonderful exhibition of the wear of water through solid rock. It 
is known as Moose Caves, and derives its name from the fact 
that a wounded moose once took refuge in the cavern worn by 
the struggling waters. As a curiosity, it is fully equal to 
Screw-Augur Falls. 

A mile beyond, the road leaves the Notch, disclosing a heavily 
wooded but less mountainous country. The headwaters of the 
Cambridge River are near this place. . 

You are now in the town of Grafton, and following the Cam- 
bridge down, as you have followed Bear River up, you soon come 
in sight, (if it is a moonlight night) of Lake Umbagog, stretching 



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away to the northwest. A long hill leads down to the Lake House, 
which sets on the shore of the lake, and near it is the Umbagoo 
House. The former is kept by H. R. Godwin, and the latter by 
W. I. Abbott. You will be well treated at either house, finding 
excellent accommodations at both. The stage puts up at the Lake 
House, which is the largest house of the two. The price for board 
at either of these hotels is $2.00 per day. Very good trout-fishing 
is found near the hotels in June. Lake Umbagog is the lower 
of the chain of lakes, known as " The Rangeley's," and is 1256 
feet above the sea level. The Androscoggin River serves as an 
outlet to this, as well as all of the other lakes. 




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SPLENDID TROUT FISHING 

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SUMMER AREMGEMaHT, 1876. 
On and after Thttrsday, May 23 ^ 

Will leaYO Bethel, Maine, every day except Saturday and Sunday on arrival of 
trains from Boston, for Upton and Umbagog Lake, where connections are mad© 
with the new 

STEAMER DIAMOND 

for Anglers' Retreat on Richardson Lake, Errol Dam and Magalloway River, 
connecting at Errol Dam with Stages for Colebrook, N. II., which pass through 
the famous "Dixville Notch." Returning, Steamer Diamond leaves Magalloway 
River every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, during the months of 
June, August and September, and every Tuesday, Thursday and Satui-day dur- 
ing the month of July, touching at Errol Dam and Richardson Lake Road, con- 
necting at Errol Dam with Stages from Colebrook, and at Upton with Stages 
•for Bethel, which connect with trains for Boston. 

Stages Leave Colebrook on boat days for Errol Dam, connecting with 
Steamer Diamond for Magalloway Rivor, Anglers' Retreat, Upton and Bethel. 
Returning, leave Errol Dam for Colebrook every Tuesday, Thursday Friday and 
Saturday, as above on arrival of Steamer. 

Parties can be furnished tvith Teams from Bethel and Colebrook on 
any day for Upton and Errol Dam. 

Steamer Diamond will be at the service of Pleasure Parties when not en- 
gaged on regular trips, at a moderate price. 

Parties tvishint/ Accommodations in the way of Teams from Bethel, 
will apply to 0. C. LITTLEHALE, Bethel, Me. ; from Colebrook, to FRANK 
BAILEY, Parsons House, Colebrook, N. H., and for use of Steamer, 11. R. GOD- 
WIN, Upton, Me., or to the Captain of the Steamer, JAMES O. TENNY, Upton, 
Me. 

Good Hotel Accommodations can be had at Bethel, Upton, Errol Dam, 
Magalloway and Colebrook. 

Bethel, Me., May 25th, 1876. 




CHAPTER IV. 

GOOD night's rest, and you will be ready in 
the morning, after partaking of a hearty break- 
fast, (for one is always hungry in this country) 
to proceed. You will also find it to your advantage 
to procure a guide here before starting, for whose 
services you pay $2.50 per day, and their board. The 
little steamer "Diamond" is at your service, and 
nothing can be more delightful on a pleasant morning, than a sail 
across the lake. 

You embark, the whistle is sounded to hurry up the laggards, 
the fasts are cast off, and with Capt. James R. Tenney at the wheel, 
the boat, puffing and snorting like some amphibious monster, 
turns and twists down the crooked channel of the Cambridge 
River, until the lake proper is reached, and the course is laid 
for the Cedar Stump, or the Inlet. Fairly out in the lake, 
one is surprised at the beauty of the view. Mountains tower- 
ing up in every direction^ and Mount AVashington plainly to be 
seen, far to the westward o'ertopping all others. Among the more 
prominent peaks to the northward, are Mount Dustan, Moose 
Mountain, and Aziscohos. The east side of this lake strongly re- 
sembles Moosehead Lake with the exception of the water ; in Um- 
bagog it is red and muddy, while that in Moosehead is as clear as 
the purest spring water. 

The distance from the Lake House to the "Inlet, "is 12 miles, fare 
$1.50. Here you leave the steamer, and take a row-boat; a pull up 
river of a mile and a half, brings you to the rapids. At this point 
you are met by a team, on which your luggage is conveyed to the 
Middle Dam Camp, kept by Mr. Godwin, of the Lake House. For 
yourself, you will have to foot it, the road being too rough the 
greater part of the way to admit of riding. The natives call it 
four miles and a half from where you leave the boat to the Camp, 

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but after walking it, if you don't think it nearer six, you wont 
agree with me. 

Arrived at the camp, you will find a number of fishermen and 
tourists, from all parts of the country, who are generally first- 
rate fellows, and with whom you will soon find yourself on terms 
of friendly intimacy. No man is better than his neighbor here, 
and it is "hail fellow, well met," with everybody. There is noth- 
ino- like life in the woods, to take the foolish airs out of a man. 

If you are an enthusiastic fisherman, you will be anxious to 
have a try at the trout before dinner, and accompanied by your 
guide, with rod and landing net, flies and worms, now don't turn 
up your nose at the word "worms," my scientific fly-thrower, 
for a trout will often bite at a worm, when he will wink all day at 
a fly and never rise to it, (trout have their fancies you know,) you 
walk out to the dam, and secure an eligible place for fishing. 

The Middle Dam, holds back the waters of Molechunka- 
MUNK and Welokennebacook Lakes, and the camp sits on a little 
eminence on the west shore of the latter lake, facing eastward. 

Among the good places for fishing, to which parties resort, when 
making their head-quarters at the Angler's Retreat, as the 
camp is called, are the Dam, situated a few rods south of the 
house, the Pond in the River, half a mile from the house. 
Smooth Ledge, three miles distant, where you can obtain one 
of the finest views to be seen on the rjl-er, and the Hop Yard, 
three and a half miles from the house. ^Vith all these, and other 
places your guide will be familiar, and will tell you the best time 
of day to visit each place. 

Between Lake Welokennebacook and Lake Umbagog flows the 

Rapid River, or Five Mile Falls, as the loggers term it, one of 

the most pictui-esque streams in Maine, and from the bank of the 

river, near Forest Lodge, it appears to its best advantage. Here 

you may stand and drink in the wild beauty of the scene, while 

"Far down, through the mist of the falling river, 
Which rises up like an incense ever, 
The splintered points of the crags are seen, 
With water howling and vexed between, 
While the scooping whirl of the pool beneath 
Seems an open throat, with its granite teeth ! " 



HICHARDSOI, UMBAGOG, 

AND 

RANGELEY LAKES, 

AND 

THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE 

TO THESE 
OF THE 

SPORTSMAN and TOURIST 

IS BY 

Boston & Maine R ailroad 

THROUGH TICKETS 

TO 

AndoYcr^ Maine^ Umbagog, Eich- 
ardson, and Rangclsy Lakes, 

AKB SOLD VIA THE 



Grand Trunk and Maine Central Railroads. 



Parlor Car runs oa through trains from Boston to Portland, Bryants Pond, 
Bethel, and Gorham, without change, during the summer. 



'The Boston & Maine Railroad offers superior in- 
ducements to parties visiting Andover and the Lakes. 

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS BY THIS ROUTE. 

Boston Passenger Station^ Haymarket iSqaare, 



ASDOYER HOUSE, 

ANDO YER, M AINE. 

A good Livery Stable is connected with this house and einglo or 
double teams will be furuished by Mr. Thomas at short notice, at 
reasonable prices. Parties carried between Andover and the Arm 
of the Lake at any time of day or night. 

Good boats are kept on the Richardson Lakes by Mr. Thomas 
which may be hired for 50 cents per day. 

Guides are also furnished to parties visiting the Lakes, for $2.50 
per day. 

Parties who wish to '<camp out" can procure a nice Tent of 
Mr. Thomas, capable of accommodating six persons, at a reasona- 
ble price, and thus avoid the trouble and expense in bringing one 
from places at a distance. 

The route to the Lakes by WAY OF ANDOVER, is the 

Chsapsst, Shortest and Best, 
mmU JEW TICKETS 

From BOSTON to RICHARDSON LAKE, via Andover, and 
RETURN, for only 



1 3.0 O ! 

THREE DOLLARS CHEAPER, 

THAN BY ANY OTJSJEB B^OUTE. 

]^^ Bear this in mind and purchase your Tickets by the way 
of Andover. 

ALBERT W. THOMAS, 

ANDOVER HOUSE, ANDOVER, ME. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 23 



A new camp has been built on the Middle Dam Carry, a few rods 
beyond Forest Lodge, called the Oxford Club House; twenty 
members belong to it, all Portland men, and they control the fish- 
ing in B Pond in Upton. The camp is very pleasantly situated on 
the bank of Rapid River. 

Board at the Middle Dam Camp is fifty cents per meal, and fifty 
cents per lodging, whether you stop a longer or shorter time. Last 
season the Camp was in charge of Dana Brooks, with Asa Frost as 
cook, and everybody who has ever stopped at the camp while Asa 
did the cooking, will bear me out in saying that there is no better 
cook nor no better fellow, in the entire lake region. On the next 
page we present a view of the Middle Dam Camp, with Asa and 
his dog on the platform. 

The camp is very pleasantly situated, fronting the lake, and its 
surroundings are beautiful and picturesque. Welokennebacook, 
is more commonly known as the Lower Richardson Lake, and is 
second in the chain starting from Upton. It is 1456 feet above 
the sea level. 

The Great Northern Diver, or Loon, as the bird is commonly 
called, are yearly habitues of this and the other lakes, and al- 
though hundreds have been shot at on the lake, in front of the 
Middle Dam Camp, I never yet knew of one being killed. Speak- 
ing of loons, Theodore Winthrop, says, *'No being has ever shot a 
loon, though several have legends of some one who has. Sound 
has no power to express a profounder emotion of utter loneliness 
than the loon's cry. Standing in piny darkness on the lake's 
bank, or floating in dimness of mist or glimmer of twilight on its 
surface, you hear this wailing note, and all possibility of human 
tenancy by the shore or human voyaging is annihilated. You 
can fancy no response to this signal of solitude disturbed, and 
again it comes sadly over the water, the despairing plaint of some 
companionless and incomplete existence, exiled from happiness it 
has never known, and conscious only of blank and utter want. 
Loon skins have a commercial value ; so it is reported. The Bar- 
abinzians of Siberia, a nation "up beyond the River Ob," tan 
them into vfQ.iQY-^YOof paletots or aquascutums. How they catch 
their loon, before they skin their loon, is one of the things 



24 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

yet to be revealed about that unknown and incomprehensible 
realm." 

The lower route properly ends here, as from this point, one can 
hire a boat and go on clear to Oquossoc, if they wish. The lakes 
and country above will be described in their proper place. 



STJnyEiAdllEJI^ SZE^SOlsT, 1876. 



9WS^ 



FARMINGTON, ME. 
J. S. MILLIKEN, Proprietor. 

TERMS, $2.00 PER DAY. 



This well-known and favorite resort of the traveling public, is centrally lo- 
cated in one of the most prosperous towns in New England, but a short distance 
from the Maine Central Railroad Depot. It contains about forty rooms, and 
some fifty guests can be comfortably accommodated. The rooms are furnished 
in good style, and the table unexceptionable. The surroundings of the house 
are pleasant, it standing on the corner of the main street, and fronting a beau- 
tiful little grove of maple trees, which furnish a delightful shade during the 
summer months. 

The village of Farmington lays among the hils and valleys of the Sandy 
River, and there are many objects of interest, and beautiful drives within easy 
walking or riding distance of the hotel. The Abbott School for boys is but a 
short distance from the hotel, and is quite attractive. Opposite the school is the 
residence of Jacob Abbott, the well-known author. Fifteen or twenty minutes' 
•walk from the hotel, is Powder House Hill, which commands a beautiful 
view of the Sandy River Yalley, and numerous mountains, iucluding Mounts 
Blue and Abram. A lovely drive from the hotel to Clear TVater Pond, five 
miles distant, may bo made easily in half a day. This pond is from two to three 
miles long and a mile wide, and is a favorite resort for tourists. Its waters are 
well-stocked with trout, and some have been caught there weighing 15 pounds. 
Row boats are kept on the pond, and may be hired at reasonable prices. Farm- 
ington Falls, five miles from the hotel, will furnish a very pleasant drive. You 
can drive down by the road along the river, and come back over a different one, 
thus giving greater variety to the ride. 

A beautiful excursion, occupying a day, may be made from Farmington to 
the top of Mount Blue, twenty miles distant. The road is good all the way, 
and the scenery enchanting the entire distance. A little hotel sits at the foot 
of the mountain where you can procure dinner for yourself and team. A good 
path leads to the top of the mountain, and the ascent is easily made. It is a 
mile from the base to the summit. One of the finest landscape views in New 
England may he seen from the top of this mountain. 

There is excellent trout-fishing on the brooks and streams, within easy riding 
distance of the hotel. 

The Forest House is kept open the entire year, and persons who wish to visit 
this section of the country in September and October, and view the scenery 
when the green of summer has given place to the gorgeous hues of fall, will 
find the accommodations at the hotel the same as earlier in the season. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE MIDDLE ROUTE. 



gxtim ^Sa^Un to '§.n&0vtVt '^mm. 




j jHIS route is considered the short- 
ly est by many persons who have vis- 
"^ ited the Lakes. You may go from 
Boston to Portland by either way 
as described in the "Lower Route" 
then take the Grand Trunk Rail- 
road for Bryants Poxd, which 
place you reach, if the train is 
on time at 4.30 P. M. AliKhtins; 
from the the cars, you find await- 
ing you at the Depot, one of Tuttle 
& "Woodman's comfortable coaches 
by which you take passage for 
Andovek, 21 miles distant. If 
the day is pleasant, don't fail to procure an outside seat, if you 
can get one, for the ride is lovely, and during the months of June 
and July, you will reach Andover, before 

"Darkness casts her sable mantle down." 

You will find ''Deacon" Tuttle, or John Woodman, good whips 
and agreeable companions, as they keep in stock a vast number of 
entertaining stories, which they are not at all backward in relat- 
ing. For a first-class story-teller, commend me to a New England 
stage driver. 

The road turns to the north-west, and we drive through Bryants 
Pond, with a beautiful landscape unrolled before us, and just at 

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f V,A'f/ 



26 FARRAES ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 



the right time of day to appreciate all of its wonderful beauties. 
The road is hard and level ; no tiresome hills for the horses to 
climb, it following the valleys of the Androscoggin and Ellis 
Rivers, nearly the entire distance, and you are consequently at 
ease to enjoy the scenery. 

Close to the road are the fertile meadows of the intervale, while 
in the distance mountain after mountain appears, some bold and 
striking and others soft and gentle in their outline. 

You will be pleased with the neat appearance and thrifty aspect 
of the farms along the road, and many of the houses are superior 
to those usually found in a farming country. 

Two miles distant from Bryants Pond is the village of "Pin 
Hook," and we stop at the local post-office a moment for the deliv- 
ery of the mail. Continuing on, the stage crosses a mill stream, 
spanned by a little wooden bridge, the road now bearing slightly 
to the left. 

One of the legends of this locality is, that the village derived 
its name from the fact, that an old chap when the place was first 
settled, used to fish from this bridge, and catch trout from the 
stream with a pin hook, before fancy flies and nine ounce rods 
were thought of. 

If the afternoon is pleasant you will get a beautiful sunset dur- 
ing this ride, the road commanding a grand and picturesque view 
of mountain ranges nearly the entire distance, and when the God 
of Day slowly vanishes behind some lofty peak, tinging the light 
clouds which float lazily in the sky, with a golden, dreamy light, 
and throwing shadows from base to summit of the noble old hills 
by which you are surrounded, you may perhaps wonder that peo- 
ple should visit the old world to view scenery, when that in the 
new is unsurpassed. 

Occasionally you pass over some rustic bridge, spanning a 
small stream that crosses the road, the murmur of whose gentle 
ripple bourne to your ear in the quiet air of evening, sound like 
the soft strains of eolian music. 

Before reaching Bumford, the road runs for several rods along 
a high ridge, which is known by the local sobriquet of the 
Whale's Back. It is formed of sand, and is just wide enough on 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 27 

top for a road ; it sets in a level plain, some eighty feet above the 
other land, its sides being steep and precipitous, and is a queer 
freak of nature. 

About seven o'clock, you reach the Rumford Hotel, where 
horses and drivers are changed, and where you procure supper. 
The charge is seventy-five cents each, a little steep for a country 
hotel, but they give you a very good meal for your money. 

About three-quarters of an hour is spent for supper, and change 
of team, and then you again climb aboard the stage, and away you 
rattle down the slight declivity that leads to the ferry over the 
Androscoggin River. 

Here you will probably meet with a new experience, as the 
river is crossed by means of a rope ferry, very few of which are 
to be seen in the North. 

On each side of the river is a high post and ladder, something 
like those on a pile driver. A heavy hemp cable is stretched 
across the river from the top of these two posts. The ferry boat, 
which is simply a common flat boat decked over, is fastened to the 
cable by two smaller ropes, one at each end of the boat. At the 
end of the smaller cables are grooved blocks, containing a wheel, 
so that they will travel back and forth along the large cable. The 
boat is on the lower side of the cable, and is propelled entirely by 
the current. The boats are so shallow at each end that they are 
run up on the banks of the river, and teams drive off without any 
difficulty. 

Crossing the river, the stage is driven up a little ascent to the 
post-office where the mail is changed and Express matter left, and 
then away you go again. 

You are now at quite a height above the river, and have a 
pretty view of the stream, where the Ellis empties into it. A few 
rods beyond, and you cross the Ellis River over a covered bridge, 
obtaining a view almost a mile away of a picturesque looking cliff, 
on the left side of the road, in which a horse's head is formed by 
a vein of white rock. It reminds one of the " White Horse," in 
North Conway. 

For the rest of the distance you follow the Ellis River, which is 
scarcely ever out of sight, as it twists and turns among the beau- 



28 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED OUIDE TO 



tiful meadows which are a charming feature of the landscape in 
this part of the country. 

On the left may be seen the Lead Mountain, with its buildings 
on top ; the mines here were worked for several years but were 
finally given up, from the difficulty in getting the ore down the 
mountain and to market. 

Far away to the right, White Cap rears its lofty summit to the 
sky, and from its top on a clear day Portland is plainly to be 
seen. 

Continuing on, the stage turns sharply to the left, and draws 
up at the South Andover post-office, two miles from the Andover 
House. The mail is left here, the stage turned into the main road 
asain, and now we obtain a view of Farmer's Hill, and numerous 
other mountains whose names we are unfamiliar with. 

A half-mile from the hotel, you pass the Andover Trotting 
Park, a new venture of the village people, and one which has 
proved quite successful, both in a financial view, and in spurring 
them on to improve their stock. 

After passing the Trotting Park, the houses increase in number, 
and the stage rolls along a wide level street, until it draws up in 
front of the post-office, the mail is left, and crossing the street 
diagonally, the driver pulls up his horses in front of the Andover 
House, and Mr. Albert W. Thomas, the pleasant and obliging 
host, gives you a hearty greeting. You enter the house and at 
once feel at home. 

If you are disposed to "rush business," you can procure a 
guide and team at once, to take you to the Arm of the Lake, 
twelve miles distant, where you can take a boat, and push on to 
the Middle Dam, arriving at that well-known resort at about one 
o'clock in the morning. Teams, boats, and guides are furnished 
by Mr. Thomas. Most parties who visit the lakes by this route, 
however, prefer to stop at the Andover House, over night, and 
make an early start in the morning. 

A few days may be advantageously spent in Andover, in brook 
fishing, and viewing the splendid scenery in the locality, either in 
going to or coming from the lakes. Mr. Thomas is familiar with 
the location of all the trout-brooks, and will take you to streams 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 29 

where a good day's sport is the rule, rather than the exception. 

Rising early in the morning, you partake of a hearty breakfast, 
an excellent table being set at the Andoyer House, and after 
breakfast, get your traps together, and take a seat on the spring- 
board, or "buck-board," as the natives have it, by which you 
are to continue your journey. For rough riding, these teams can- 
not be beat, and are at once a favorite with all classes, ladies tak- 
ing to them as readily as gentlemen. 

These vehicles are made of three or four spruce boards, about 
twelve feet long, and four feet wide, fastened to dead axles, all the 
spring being in the boards. They have two or three seats on each, 
which are box shaped, the top of the seat lifting up, and serving 
as a cover for the box. Two horses arc attached to them, and they 
rattle over the ground at a lively pace. 




CHAPTER VI. 

HE ride from Andover to the Arm or the Lake 
is very pleasant. Leaving the hotel the road runs 
down to the Ellis River, which is crossed over a 
substantially built covered bridge, then turns sharply 
to the right, climbing a little hill, and makes another 
sharp turn, this time to the left ; reaching the top of 
this hill, you have a magnificent view of Andover and 

the surrounding country. 

White Cap, Lead Mountain, Bald Pate, Dunn's Notch, 
Farmer's Hill, Saavyer Notch, and various other places of in- 
terest may be seen from this point in the road. 

The horses trot gaily along, you soon pass the last house on the 
road to the Arm, and descending a hill you cross Black Brook, 
over a little wooden bridge, and shortly leave the county road, 
which continues on to the town of Byron. 

From the Andover House, to where you leave the county road 
is three miles, and turning to the left you enter what is called the 
Lake road, and here for the first time you find what buck-boards 
were made for. The road lies through the heart of the wilder- 
ness, and mud-holes and rocks abound. It is safe to say, that any 
vehicle but a wood-sled or a buck-board would be ruined by one 
trip over the Lake road. Yet for all of the jolting and jumping, 
thumping and shaking you experience, you are rather pleased 
with the ride from its entire novelty. 

It is understood that you have discarded all of your "store 
clothes " at the hotel, consequently the splashes of mud you oc- 
casionally receive, will not trouble you any. 

The first two miles of the Lake road is good compared with the 
other seven, and on reaching Smith's Mill, where a stop is made, 
you think the road is not so very bad after all. 

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J0I1N3UH r~(LO 

Silver Ripple Cascade, Black Brook, Andover, Me. 



GREENYILE HOUSE, 

Head of Hangeley I^alte. 

MOUNTIIN VIEW HOUSE, 

Hangeley Oixtlct. 

HENRY T. KIMBALL, Proprietor. 

THE BEST TROUT FISHING 

IN NEW ENGLAND. 

The Greentale House is situated at tho head of Rangeley Lake, 18 miles 
from Phillips, with which place it is connected by a daily line of first-class 
stages, leaving the Barden House every morning at half-past 7, arriving at tho 
Greenvale House at 12 o'clock, connecting with the steamer, which leaves for 
Rangeley Outlet at 2 o'clock. Its location is romantic, and the scenery in tho 
neighborhood unusually fine. 

There is an excellent livery stable connected with the house, and teams may 
be procured at reasonable prices. 

The Trout Fishing is also unsurpassed, and during the month of June thou- 
sands of trout are caught at the mouth of a little stream emptying into the 
lake, a few rods from the house. Some of these trout will weigh from Three to 
Eight Pounds. Excursions may be made from here to Kennebago Lake, a fine 
trouting locality. 

Excursions may also be made down the lake daily by steamer Molly-Chunka- 
munk, Rangeley Outlet, and Indian Rock. 

Row boats are to be hired at reasonable prices by those who wish to use them. 

Persons who are looking for a healthy and quiet retreat in which to spend the 
summer, cannot do better than pay a visit to Greenvale. The terms at this 
house are $2.00 per day, and every thing possible for tho comfort of guests is 
attended to by the obliging proprietor. 

THE MOUNTAIN VIEW HOUSE, 

Setting at the foot of Rangeley Lake, is also the property of Mr. Kimball. 
This house has been built the past season in a superior manner. The rooms are 
all lathed and plastered, and furnished in comfortable style. The house sets en 
tho spot formerly occupied by "Soule's Camp," and commands a fine landscape 
view. Bald Mountain being directly opposite. There are excellent facilities for 
boating here, the fishing is good, and there is a good road over which one can 
drive with a buggy from this house to the Greenvale House. Heretofore there 
has been no suitable accommodations for ladies at the lakes, but -now a lady can 
obtain very pleasant and comfortable accommodations here, and no wheie will 
they find a more healthful spot than this in which to spend a few weeks. A 
broad piazza extends on three sides of the house furnishing a delightful prom- 
enade. Terms, $2.00 per day. For further particulars, address, 

HENRY T. KIMBALL, Greenvale, Maine. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 31 

The trees grow close to the road on either side, there are no 
openings, and you can only get a peak at the sky by looking di- 
rectly overhead, and at times you cannot even do that as the 
branches of some of the venerable monarchs of the forest meet 
above your head, forming a beautiful and fantastic archway, com- 
pletely hiding the sky and sun. 

Arriving at Smith's Mill, you stop some thirty minutes to visit 
the Devil's Den, Hermit Falls and Silver Ripple Cascade. 
Crossing the sunny glade where the teams are halted, you walk 
down the path, passing a spring of excellent water, cross a little 
rivulet, and ascend a hill, where you reach the first curiosity, the 
Devil's Den. It is certainly a wonderful place and a queer freak 
of nature. 

The Den is a large excavation in the granite rock, and has been 
formed by the action of the water, during the fearful freshets that 
take place in that region in spring, assisted occasionally perhaps 
by some of the heavy thunder storms, whose powerful electricity 
crumble the edges and tear off pieces of the rock, which are swept 
away by the rapid current of the freshet. It is from sixty to 
eighty feet deep, and about thirty feet across the top. Former- 
ly a mill owned by a man named Smith stood over it. At that 
time the waters of Black Brook emptied into the Den over the 
wall of solid rock which formed the back, and made their escape 
through an opening in the rock at the lower end. The shape of 
the Den inside was like a letter U turned sideways, with the bot- 
tom of the letter towards the brook. The wheel was hung in the 
Den, under the mill, and so near the precipice over which the 
water fell, as to be driven by the force of its fall. But the mill 
has long since fallen to decay, and the waters of Black Brook 
have been turned from the Den, and have worn a new channel 
through the rocks a few yards beyond. The bottom of the Den is 
now partially covered with rubbish and broken timbers that have 
fallen in as the building has succumbed to the ravages of time and 
the elements. Across the top of the Den where the mill stood, 
there yet remains one large timber that spans the awful chasm. 
Upon this one may walk out, and get a better view of the gorge 
through which the waters escaped. If you are troubled with diz- 



32 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

ziness, however, you had better keep off of it, as a fall would be 
very likely to spoil your trout fishing at the lakes. 

Like all romantic places of the kind, this locality has its legend. 
It runs thus : 

Many years ago, a man by the name of Brown, who was more 
of a hunter and trapper than anything else, came down to An- 
dover from Canada. After stopping in the village a few weeks, 
he came out here in the wilderness, and with the assistance of 
some of the village people, built him a log house. At that time 
Indians were thick about the lakes, and hunting and trapping was 
anything but a safe business. Here Brown lived, miles from 
other houses, without any companions but a dog and a horse. 
Occasionally he would make a visit to the town, trade his furs at 
the stores for necessaries in the way of groceries and ammunition, 
and then return to his log cabin, not to be seen for another long 
spell. One winter and spring, two years after he had built his 
cabin, the Indians were particularly troublesome and daring, and 
Brown had not made his appearance at Andover for a long time. 
At the principal store, one day, a number of the villagers had ac- 
cidently met, and were wondering what had become of the eccen- 
tric hunter, when Brown's dog walked into the store, so thin and 
lank they scarcely knew him. He was almost famished, and 
Mudge the store-keeper, gave him something to eat. After the 
dog had eaten, he acted very strangely — would go to the door 
and look out, then come back and looking the men wistfully in 
the face, would give uttei'ance to a mournful howl. Those pres- 
ent thought something had happened to Brown, for the dog was 
never known to come to the village before alone. After talking 
the matter over, they raised a company of twenty men, and the 
next morning, well armed, they started for Brown's cabin, the 
dog taking the lead, just as if he understood all that was going 
on. When they arrived here they found the cabin burned to the 
ground, and the bones of Brov/n, which had been picked clean by 
the wolves, were all there was left of the unfortunate hunter. 
Near by, beneath a rudely constructed grave, they found the 
remains of four Indians, showing that Brown must have sold 
his life dearly. They dug a grave and buried the bones, and 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 33 

then returned home, Mudge keeping the dog, who lived for some 
years after his master's death. The horse, and everything else 
of any value, the redskins had taken away with them. 

A few yards beyond the Den, and you reach Black Brook, an 
excellent trout stream, and here are Hermit Falls and Silver 
Ripple Cascade. 

On each side of the brook are heavy masses of rock, and be- 
tween these the water comes foaming and swirling down, tumbling 
over two or three huge rocks, forming the falls, and then plunges 
into a black looking pool, of unfathomable depth. From this it pours 
down over a solid bed of granite forming a lovely cascade, and 
empties into a basin, nearly circular in shape, and some thirty feet 
wide. It is not unlike Garnet Pool, near the Glen House, but is 
larger, and more beautiful in its surroundings. 

An hour may be profitably spent in this charming place, and 
one unconsciously lingers, as if loath to tear themselves away 
from its attracting features. 

After leaving this lovely spot the road grows perceptibly rough- 
er, and is filled with roots, rocks and stumps, the mud increasing 
in depth and tenacity. And yet with all the discomforts of this 
unique mode of traveling, you are kept in good humor as you 
ride along, your ears soothed with harmonious sounds arising 
from Black Brook, as its waters leap with a merry ripple from 
rock to rock, to continue their flight until swallowed up by the 
Ellis, into which stream they empty. 

Four miles from the Devil's Den you reach Black Brook 
Notch, and have a splendid view of Sawyer and Blue Mountains, 
which here come together, leaving just room to allow a team to 
pass between them, but not without the hubs of the wheels scrap- 
ing on the rough sides of the rocks. 

On your right a frightful precipice looms eight hundred feet 
above you, its sides seamed and scarred by the war of the ele- 
ments, and in many places it looks as if the rocks would fall into 
the road at any moment. On the left. Sawyer Mountain towers 
into the air, an occasional huge cliff peeping out from the dense 
mass of woods with which it is covered. This is a great place for 
thunder showers, and when you are caught in one, you do not for- 



34 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

get it in a hurry. The sun disappears and the sky is covered with 
dull leaden clouds, the rain pours in torrents, the thunder rolls 
heavily from mountain to mountain, and the fearful flashes of 
lightning that illuminate the inky clouds, are all a fitting ad- 
dition to the grandeur of the scene. 

A sluice dam is thrown across the brook at this point, and this 
raises the water sufficiently in the spring to float down the logs, 
when lumbering operations are carried on here. We present our 
readers with an engraving of Mount Sawyer and the Sluice 
Dam. 

A short distance from here is a foot path which runs over the 
mountains to Andover, and by which the distance between the 
Hotel and the Arm of the Lake, is shortened some three miles. 
The writer in company with several other gentlemen and their 
guides, tramped from the Arm of the Lake to the Hotel, by the 
mountain path some three years ago, and found it a very pleasant 
jaunt. The party numbered fourteen men and two dogs, the 
largest party that had ever walked out over the mountains. On 
our way, one of the guides called my attention to a huge white 
birch tree near the path, with which was connected a storj^. He 
said, ''one winter a man from the village had attempted to walk 
out to the lake to join a party who were fishing for trout, and he 
lost his way. The snow was deep, and for two days and nights he 
hunted for the path in vain, and finally believing he could not sur- 
vive much longer, he tore out a leaf from a pocket diary, and 
wrote a few farewell lines to his wife and family, which he fasten- 
ed to that birch tree. After that he wandered aimlessly about, 
and accidently chanced upon the path. He arrived home in the 
middle of the night, half-starved, and nearly frozen, but soon re- 
covered from the ill effects of his adventure. The next spring I 
found the paper pinned to the tree." 

In walking in or out across the mountains, one has a fine view 
of Sawyer Notch, and the Moody Ledge, so called, from an 
accident which once befell a man of that name, while after wolves 
on the mountain. 

One evening, Moody, and several others who were in the vicin- 
ity, heard the howling of wolves on the mountain above the ledge. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 35 

They started up the mountain, intending to make it hot for the 
wolves. Moody led the way, and when just aboye the ledge, a 
small tree that he had hold of gave way, and before he could catch 
at anything else, down he went. He struck first on a little shelf 
of the ledge about a third of the way down which broke his fall 
and some of his bones at the same time. Before he could secure 
himself, over he went again, and landed about a third further 
down on a little spur, projecting from the main precipice, upon 
which grew a few small bushes. Before he could get hold of 
these, he again fell, striking heavily at the bottom of the rock. 
His companions made a stretcher and took him out to the village. 
A doctor was called, and it was found that the unfortunate man 
had broken both his arms and legs, and his collar bone, and from 
a fearful cut on his head some of his brains were oozing. Yet in 
spite of this, he managed to get well, went to sea, and was 
drowned. This is no mere fancy sketch, but the facts are sub- 
stantially as we have written them, and there are men still living 
in Andover who helped bring Moody out of the woods. But the 
wonderful circumstances of the case bring to mind the old adage, 
'* A man who is born to be drowned will not be hanged." 

After leaving the Notch, you have a mile or so of corduroy to 
ride over, and any remnant of your breakfast that has still stop- 
ped by your stomach, will be shook into your boots, before you 
get on hard ground again. 



CHAPTER VII. 



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KRIVING at the Arm of the Lake, lunch is 
the first thing thought of, and as Mr, Thomas 
is a good provider, you will know how nice 
food tastes when you are really hungry. 

After lunch you stow yourself and traps 
in one of the boats, and the guide pulls out 
from the landing. The distance from the 
Arm of the Lake, to the Middle Dam Camp, 
is four miles, but as we have already been 
there, we will continue on until we reach the 
Upper Dam Landing. 

The sail from McAllister's to the Upper 
Dam, is delightful. The mountains, thickly 
wooded, descend on each side to the water, your boat glides along, 
and as the shore is very irregular, just as you think you have 
reached the end of your journey, the lake opens wider than ever 
before you. 

Welokennebacook, or the Lower Richardson Lake, is one of 
the prettiest lakes of the Rangeley chain. Seen under any as- 
pect, its waters slightly ruffled by a gentle south wind, or stirred 
into billowy waves, with' frothy caps, by a north-wester, or en- 
tirely placid, when 

"The solemn pines along its shore, 
The firs which hang its gray rocks o'er, 
Are painted on its glassy floor — " 

it is beautiful, and will hold a place among your pleasant memo- 
ries. 

In sailing to the Upper Dam, you pass the Middle Dam Camp 

on the left. Spirit Island, and Hard Scrabble Point on the 

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right. Looking back, as you enter the mouth of the Narrows, 
which are five miles from the Arm, you have a fine view of sever- 
al of the White Mountain peaks, Mount Washington being the 
most prominent. The view down the lake is magnificent, and is 
considered one of the finest in the Lake region. 

The Narrows are two miles long, and fi-om a few rods to half a 
mile wide. In some places the rocks are very thick, but are not 
troublesome except late in the season, when the Avater is low. 

As you approach the Upper Richardson Lake, Molechunka- 
MUNK, you pass Metalic Point on your right. Here is a splen- 
did sand beach and a fine chance for bathing. In the fall fishing 
fair sized trout are often found off this point. A path leads up 
from Metalic Point to a clearing where, there are two old barns, 
often made use of for shelter by persons who are camping out. 
In the summer of 1871, the writer of this book and a party of 
friends were encamped at the Richardson Farm, as the place is 
called, for two weeks, and found it a very pleasant spot. Theo- 
dore Winthrop has thus written of this lake. 

"As evening came, the sun made another effort, with the aid of 
west winds, at the mist. The sun cleft, the breeze drove. Sud- 
denly the battle was done, victory easily gained. We were cheer- 
ed by a gush of level sunlight. Even the dull, gray vapor became 
a transfigured and beautiful essence. Dull and uniform it had 
hung over the land ; now the plastic winds quarried it, and 
shaped the whole mass into individuals, each with its character. 
To the cloud-forms modelled out of formlessness the winds 
gave life of motion, sunshine gave life of light, and they hastened 
through the lower atmosphere, or sailed lingering across the blue 
breadths of mid-heaven, or dwelt peacefully aloft in the region of 
the cirri ; and whether trailing gauzy robes in flight, or moving 
stately, or dwelling on high where scope of vision makes travel 
needless, they were still the brightest, the gracefullest, the purest 
beings that Earth creates for man's most delicate pleasure. 

When it cleared, — when it purveyed us a broadening zone of 
blue sky and a heavenful of brilliant cloud-creatures, we were 
sailing over Lake Mollychunkamug. Fair Mollychunkamug had 
not smiled for us until now ; — now a sunny grin spread over her 



38 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

smootli cheeks. She was all smiling, and presently, as the breeze 
dimpled her, all a ** snicker" up'into the roots of her hair, up 
among her forest-tresses. Mollychunkamug ! Who could be 
aught but gay, gay even to the farcical when on such a name ? 
Is it Indian? Bewildered Indian Ave deem it, — transmogrified 
somewhat from aboriginal sound by the fond imagination of some 
lumberman, finding in it a sweet memorial of his Mary far away 
in the kitchens of the Kennebec, his Mary so rotund of blooming 
cheek, his Molly of the chunky mug. To him who truly loves, all 
Nature is filled with Amaryllidian echoes. Every sight and every 
sound recalls her who need not be recalled, to a heart that has 
never dislodged her. 

We lingered over our interview with Mollychunkamug. She 
may not be numbered among the great beauties of the world ; 
nevertheless, she is an attractive squaw, — a very honest bit of 
flat-faced prettiness in the wilderness." 

About three miles from the clearing, is a sheet of water called 
Metalic Poxd, which is a great place for game. Ducks of sev- 
eral kinds, deer and caribou, and sometimes moose, are quite 
plenty about the shores of this pond. A little above Metalic 
Point, a stream runs into the lake, known as Metalic Brook. 
This is an excellent trout brook, although no very large fish are 
caught in it. 

Passing this stream, our course lays between Ship Island and 
Half Moon Island, and now you will notice Whitney's Camp, on 
your right, situated in a charming locality at the mouth of Mos- 
quito Bbook, which empties into the lake. This also is an excel- 
lent trouting brook. In the month of December, 1874, Mr. New- 
ton, Avho keeps Whitney's Camp shot a caribou that was swimming 
across the lake, and still later in the season he saw a herd of 
nineteen on the ice near the camp. 

At Whitney's, the lake makes a bend to the north west, so we 
change our course a little to the left, and in a short time reach the 
Upper Dam landing, which is a few rods to the right of Betton's 
Camp. Leaving the boat, a walk of less than half a mile brings 
you to the Upper Dam, and crossing this, you reach the Camp, 
which sets just beyond the dam, and faces south. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

^^^^^^^^^ HIS Camp belongs to the Lumbering Company 

P^«b!i,.^S*^^ and consists of two buildings, one of which is 

^ used only for lodging, and the other for lodging 

kJ and dining. Besides these two camps, which 

4 1:1 are substantially built, and very comfortable, 

^S^^ ^^-- there are a large two-story store house, a barn, 

<^(i||^^fe*^ and a blacksmith shop. 

The Upper Dam is one of the largest and most substantially 
built in the state; it is built of the heaviest kind of timber, bolt- 
ed with iron, ballasted with immense rocks, and is fifteen hundred 
feet long. In the spring when the water is held back for the pur- 
pose of running the logs down the Androscoggin, the pressure 
against it is immense. It is carefully watched night and day, 
for should it ever happen to "go out," the damage that would be 
done would be incalculable. The fate of Lewiston and Auburn 
and other places on the Androscoggin River, is really held in the 
timbers and stone of this dam. The Mill River disaster in Massa- 
chusetts would not be worth mentioning in comparison with the 
frightful calamity that would happen if this dam should ever be 
swept away. Some years, logs to the value of $2,000,000 are run 
through this dam, and down the Androscoggin River to market. 

The illustration in our book is taken from below the dam in the 
month of September, when the water was low. When the water 
is raised to drive the logs, it makes a difference of from ten to fif- 
teen feet in the depth of the lakes. The shores of the lakes are 
much prettier when the water is low than when it is high. For 
during the high water many little points, and curves in the shore, 
and all the beautiful sand beaches are entirely obliterated. 

If one visits the lakes especially for fishing, they should go 

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40 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

either in June or the early part of July when the water is high, 
but if they wish to become acquainted with the beauties of the 
place, they should make their trip in August or September. Then 
the varied outline of the shores, the little nooks and coves may be 
seen to their best advantage, and you experience some consolation 
in the fact, that if the trout are not so plenty as in June or July, 
they are considerably larger. 

Some of the best fishing places at the Upper Dam are on the 
piers and apron of the dam, at the mouth of the river, a short 
distance below the dam, and Trout Cove, about a mile above the 
dam. 

If you wish to go up the lakes from this point you can get the 
man who has charge of the camp to haul your boat across the 
camp on an ox-sled, at an expense of $1.00. Last year, 1875, 
the carry was in charge of Thomas McCard, and Mr. Cummings 
did the cooking, and a very good cook he is too. The charges at 
this camp are the same as at the Middle Dam, $2.00 per day. 

A few years ago, the lumber company employed a cook here 
who was a character in his way. He was a French Canadian, 
Joseph Bourgogne by name, and was a splendid cook. The writer 
remembers one never-to-be-forgotten Sunday, when in company 
with four other gentlemen, we rowed to the Upper Dam from the 
Richardson Farm, where we were "camping-out," and ordered 
Joe to get us up a dinner. The meal was furnished, Joe intend- 
ing it also for the men who were working about the Dam. Our 
party sat down to the table, and made such havoc with the eat- 
ables, as to astonish Joe, who soon began to cry out " Sacres!" 
from between his set teeth at each new order. The climax was 
reached when we went to feed a dog accompanying us. Witli 
horror depicted on his countenance, Joe rushed to the table, and 
exclaimed — " Mon Dieu! " Don't feed de dog, my men have no 
had their dinner yet! " and laughing we left the table. 

In making a trip across the lakes some years ago, Theodore 
Winthrop fell in with " Joe," and thus relates his experience : 

" Our new friends, luxurous fellows, had been favored by Fate 
with a French-Canadian cook, himself a Three of Frferes Provin- 
ciaux. Such was his reputation. We saw by the eye of him. 




Richardson Lakes! 



Sportsmen and Tourists about to visit the Raxgeley Lakes Region, are in- 
fnruied that the fine new Steamer, 

HENRY SIMMONS, 

Is now being built to run on the Richardson Lakes. On and after 

SATURDAY, JULY 1st, 1876, 

She will make regular trips twice a day up and down the Lakes as follows: 

Leave the Upper Dam at 7 A, M., and 1 P, M., for the Middle Dam and the 
Arm of the Lake. Returning will leave Arm of the Lake at 10 A. M., and 
i P. M., for Middle Dam and Upper Dam. 

From Arm of the Lake to Middle Dam, $0.75. 

From Middle Dam to Upper Dam, 1.00. 

From Arm of the Lake to Upper Dam, 1.50. 

The Steamer may be hired for Excursion Parties at reasonable rates, when 
not engaged on regular trips. Apply to the Captain on board, or to Fred. C. 
Barker, at the Upper Dam. 



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Boston, and at Boston and Maine Railread Depot, foot of Wash- 
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RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 41 

and by his nose, formed for comprehending fragrances^ and by 
the lines of refined taste converging from his whole face towards 
his mouth, that he was one to detect and sniff gastronomic possi- 
bilities in the humblest materials. Joseph Bourgogne looked the 
cook. His phiz gave us faith in him : eyes small and discrimin- 
inating ; nose upturned, nostrils expanded and receptive ; mouth 
saucy in the literal sense. His voice, moreover, was a cook's, — 
thick in articulation, dulcet in tone. He spoke as if he deemed 
that a throat was created for better uses than laboriously manu- 
fixcturing words, — as if the object of the mouth were to receive 
tribute, not to give commands, — as if that pink stalactite, his 
palate, were more used by delicacies entering, than by rough 
words or sorry sighs going out of the inner caverns. 

AVhen we find the right man in the right place, our minds are 
at ease. The future becomes satisfactory as the past. Anticipa- 
tion is glad certainty, not anxious doubt. Trusting our gastro- 
nomic welfare fully to this great artist, we tried for fish below the 
dam. Only petty Ashlings, weighing ounces, took the bit between 
their teeth. We therefore doifed the fisherman and donned the 
artist and poet, and chased our own fancies down the dark whirl- 
pooling river, along its dell of evergreens, now lurid with the last 
glows of twilight. Iglesias and I continued dreamily gazing down 
the thoro'fare towards Mollychunkamug only a certain length of 
time. Man keeps up his highest elations hardly longer than a 
danseuse can poise in a pose. To be conscious of the highest 
beauty demands an involuntary intentness of observation so fan- 
atically eager that presently we are prostrated and need stimu- 
lants. And just as we sensitively felt this exhaustion and this 
need, we heard a suggestive voice calling us from the front-do.or 
of the mansion-house of Damville, and " Supper " was the cry. 

A call to the table may quell and may awaken romance. When, 
in some abode of poetized luxury, the "silver knell" sounds 
musically six, and a door opens toward the glitter that is not 
pewter and Wedgewood, and, with a being fair and changeful as a 
sunset cloud upon my arm, I move under the archway of blue 
curtains toward the asphodel and a nectar, then, Reader! 
Friend ! romance crowds into my heart, as color and fragrance 



42 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

crowd into a rose-bud. Joseph Bourgogne, cook of Damville on 
Moosetocmaguntic, could not offer us such substitute for aesthetic 
emotions. But his voice of an artist created a winning picture 
half veiled with mists, evanescent and affectionate, such as linger 
fondly over Pork-and-Beans. 

Fancied joy soon to become fact. We entered the barrack. 
Beneath its smoky roof-tree was a pervading aroma ; near the cen- 
tre of that aroma, a table dim with wefts of incense ; at the inner- 
most centre of that aroma and that incense, and whence those 
visible and viewless fountains streamed, with their source, — a 
Dish of Pork-and-Beans. 

Topmostly this. There were lesser viands, buttresses to this 
towering triumph. Minor smokes from minor censers. A circle 
of little caterlings about the great crater, — of little fiery cones 
about that great volcanic dome in the midst, unopened, and burst- 
ino- with bounty. We sat down, and one of the red-shirted boldly 
crushed the smoking dome. The brave fellow plunged in with a 
spoon and heaped our plates. 

J. j9r?'ore we had deduced Joseph Bourgogne's results from in- 
spection of Joseph. Now we could reason back from one experi- 
mentum crucis cooked by him. Effect and cause Avere worthy of 
each other. 

The average world must be revenged upon Genius. Greatness 
must be punished by itself or another. Joseph Bourgogne was 
no exception to the laws of misery of Genius. He had a dis- 
tressing trait, whose exhibition tickled the dura ilia of the reapers 
of the forest. Joseph, poet-cook, was sensitive to new ideas. 
This sensitiveness to the peremptory thought made him the slave 
of the wags of Bamville. Whenever he had anything in his 
hands, at a stern, quick command he would drop it nervously. 
Did he approach the table with a second dish of pork-and-beans, 
a yellow dish of beans, browned delicately as a Sevres vase, then 
would some full-fed rogue, waiting until Joseph was bending over 
some devoted head, say sharply, " Drop that, Josej)h ! " — where- 
upon down went the dish and contents, emporridging the poll and 
person of the luckless weight beneath. Always, were his burden 
pitcher of water, armful of wood, axe dangerous to toes, mirror, 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 43 



or pudding, still followed the same result. And when the poet- 
cook had done the mischief, he would stand shuddering at his 
Avork of ruin, and sigh, and curse his too sensitive nature." 

Several very fine excursions may be made from the Upper Dam. 
Take your boat at the landing near Betton's, and pull up to the 
mouth of the little trout stream at the head of the lake, a dis- 
tance of three miles, then a tramp through the woods of three 
miles, brings you to 

a pearl in the heart of the wilderness. Its situation is romantic, 
lying as it does at the base of Mount Observatory, whose wood- 
ed crest towers for 1500 feet above it. A little further south, Az- 
iscoHos Mountain raises its bare and ragged top still higher, its 
formation, color, and general appearance, strongly resembling 
Mount "Washington. 

Several small islands in the pond add materially to its beauty. 
The shores are heavily wooded, thus forming an excellent cover 
for game ; deer and caribou may always be found there by a person 
who is at all familiar with hunting. A large number of deer 
were shot on the shore of this pond last summer. They are hunt- 
ed at night, with a boat, in which is a torch, securely fastened at 
the bow, which throws a light, that attracts the curiosity of the 
deer, until the hunter has a chance to fire. Mr. Betton shot a 
very pretty fawn here last fall. 

From PticHARDsoN's Pond to the top of Aziscohos Mountain 
is only five miles, and the magnificent view to be obtained from its 
summit well repays any person for the toil and time spent in mak- 
ing the ascent. To the north-east the whole la^e country is 
spread before you like a map, and Deer Mountain, East and 
West Kennebago Mountains, loom up like sentinels on duty. 
To the west the Magalloway Settlement lies almost beneath you, 
and some twenty miles north-west the ragged walls of Dixville 
Notch conceal from your sight the village of Colebbook, which 
lays just beyond. South and south-east, you obtain a view of the 
Bichabdson Lakes and Lake Umbagog, the White Mountain 
Range, with towns and villages dotting the landscape here and 



44 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

there. In fact you obtain a charming and varied view which ever 
way you turn. 

In order to give our readers an idea of the weatlier at the Up- 
per Dam in summer, we give below a copy of the weather record 
of 1875, for which we are indebted to Mr. Samuel Betton, of 
Camp Bellevue, it being the ** official reqord" of the Camp. The 
dates are given from July 28th, the day that Mr. Betton went into 
camp, up to the 18th of September, the last day that the author 
sp'ent at the Upper Dam. 







Mean 






Dak 


. 


Tempi 


rature. 


Wind. 


Weather. 


July 


28 


52 


deg. 


N. W. 


Clear 


(< 


29 


54 


<( 


W. S. W. 


<( 


<< 


30 


58 


<( 


S. W. 


(( 


(< 


31 


48 


(< 


N. W. 


tt 


Aug 


1 


47 


<< 


N. W. 


<( 


< I 


2 


45 


a 


s. w. 


It 


a 


3 


46 


n 


N. E. 


Rain 


11 


4 


47 


1 1 


s. w. 


Clear 


<< 


5 


60 


a 


N. W. 


Rain 


<( 


6 


60 


it 


S. W. 


Clear 


i I 


7 


62 


<< 


s. w. 


Squally 


a 


8 


62 


li 


s. w. 


Clear 


li 


9 


55 


a 


s. w. 


(< 


1 1 


10 


54 


it 


N. W. 


(< 


11 


11 


52 


a 


S. W. 


Over Cast 


n 


12 


62 


ii 


s. w. 


It 


<( 


13 


60 


(< 


S. W. Rain, 


Over Cast 


n 


14 


• 62 


(( 


N. W. Rain 


and Clear 


ii 


15 


56 


ti 


N. W. 


<( 


11 


16 


57 


11 


S. W. 


It 


ii 


17 


62 


<< 


S. W. 


li 


11 


18 


61 


<( 


N. E. Rain, 


Over Cast 


<( 


19 


62 


<( 


N. W. 


Clear 


<( 


20 


62 


(( 


s. w. 


(( 


<( 


21 


57 


ii 


s. w. 


It 


<( 


22 


54 


<( 


N. W. 


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RANGELET AND RICHARDSOX 


LAKES. 45 






Mean 








Date. 




Temperature. 


Wind. 




Weaiher. 


Aug. 23 




43 deg. 


N. W. 




Clear 


" 24 




42 " 


S. W. 




<( 


" 25 




47 '* 


s. w. 




(( 


" 26 




49J - 


s. 




i< 


" 27 




51 " 


s. w. 




<( 


" 28 




50 '' 


w. 




(( 


" 29 




52 - 


N. W. 




<< 


" 30 




54 '' 


N. W. 




(< 


" 31 




54 '' 


s. w. 




11 


Sept. 1 




54 " 


s. w. 




It 


" 2 




55 '' 


s. w. 




<( 


" 3 




58 *' 


N. W. 




ti 


u 4 




59 " 


s. 




<< 


" 5 




44 " 


N. W. 




(( 


'' 6 




56 " 


*N. W. 




11 


" 7 




52 " 


N. W. 




Cloudy 


" 8 




50 '' 


S. AV. E 


ain 


and Cloudy 


" 9 




51 ." 


S. W. 




Clear 


" 10 




64 " 


N. W. 




Rain 


'* 11 




36 '^ 


N. W. 




Clear 


'< 12 




40 " 


S. 




Cloudy 


" 13 




48 " 


N. W. 




Clear 


" 14 




46 " 


N. W. 




(( 


" 15 




48 '' 


s. w. 




<( 


" 16 




50 '* 


N. E. 




Rain 


" 17 




44 " 


N. E. 




<< 


" 18 




35 " 


N. W. Snow 


and Cloudy 


During 


this 


period the lowest 


point to which 


the 


thermometer 


fell at 8 A 


. M. 


, was 35 degrees. 


The highest to 


which it rose at 


noon was 


85 degrees ; during the last of August 


and first of Sep- 


tember, it 


was 


pleasant for nineteen consecutive days. 


The route over the lakes above the Upper Dam, 


we shall de- 


scribe in 


the 


following _ pages 


under the head of 


The Upper 


Route. 













CHAPTER IX. 

THE UPPER ROUTE. 




AKE the cars at the Eastern Railroad Depot, and 

.^ on arrival at Portland your car is transferred to 

the Maine Central train, thus enabling you to 



reach Farmington without change of cars. You can 
also go to Portland by Boston and Maine Railroad, 
or boat, as previously stated, and change to Maine Cen- 
tral train on arrival at Portland, which leaves Portland 
for Farmington at 1.40 P. !M. The distance from Portland to 
Farmington is 90 miles, and you pass through Cumberland, Dan- 
ville Junction, Auburn, Lewiston, Leeds Junction, Strickland's 
Ferry, Livermore Falls, North Jay, Wilton, arriving at Farming- 
ton at 6.35 P. M. At the depot you are met by the stages, which 
take you up to the Forest House, a first-class hotel, where you 
procure an excellent supper for fifty cents. 

This house is kept by Mr. .J. S. Milliken, an obliging and at- 
tentive landlord. As the ride from Boston is quite tiresome, some 
may prefer to stop over night at the Forest House, where they 
will be furnished good accommodation, and resume their trip to 
the lake, the next morning. Private teams will be furnished to 
those who wish to travel this way by Messrs. D. Clark & Son, 
proprietors of the stage line, at reasonable prices. 

Farmington is too well-known to the general public to need an 

extended notice from our pen. It is very pleasantly located, the 

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THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT 



if' 



Via ANDOYER, ME. 



THE 



Cheapest and Shortest Route 



-TO THE- 



RAHGELEY LIKE REGION, 

Is over the Popular Highway of Pleasure Travel, 

The Grand Trunk Railway ! 

EXCURSION TICKETS 

Good until November 1st, are sold over this first-class line from 

Boston to AndoFOf, Maine, and Retufn, $3.00 
Boston to Rictiafdson [hud Return, $13.00 

Also, ROUND TRIP EXCURSION TICKETS from Boston to 

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RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 47 

scenery about it is beautiful, and the fine drives in the vicinity 
will enable the stranger to spend a few days to advantage, if they 
have the time to spare. 

Between Farmixgton and Phillips there is an excellent stage 
line owned and run by Messrs. D. Clakk k Son, who have been 
established on this route the last fifteen years. After supper at 
the hotel, one of their comfortable coaches is found ready at the 
door for passengers, and you embark for Phillips, 18 miles dis- 
tant. 

Leaving the hotel your route lies over the main road, and after 
riding a short distance, you wind around the base of Powder 
House Hill and ascending a sightly eminence, you have one of 
the finest views to be met with- in this country. Before you the 
Sandy River Valley unfolds its charming views, like some pano- 
rama, and its beautiful pictures are well calculated to attract the 
eye, and please the taste of the traveler. 

To the north-west, Moij!nt Blue is seen, 2,804 feet high, tower- 
ing far above the valley, a striking feature of the landscape. This 
mountain is situated in the adjoining town of Avon, and is the 
first land seen by the mariner when approaching the coast of 
Maine, On your right, in a slightly north-east direction, bold 
and striking in appearance, lay the New Vineyard range of 
mountains. Beyond and above them, a lofty peak known as 
Mount Abram, lifts its head to the clouds, which frequently 
descend far below its summit. To the west of this the Saddle- 
back range runs for several miles. Mount Saddleback is one 
of the loftiest mountains in New England, and is second only to 
one in Maine, Mount Katahdin, which is several hundred feet 
higher. 

Continuing on you reach Backus' Corner, where years ago 
stood an old store, a loafing place for the surrounding villagers, 
where many a glass of gin and water was served out to thirsty 
souls, before the Maine liquor law was thought of. The building 
is now gone, but in front of where it stood, is an old stone post, in 
which is chiselled a decanter and tumbler, and the date, July 4, 
1838, a lasting tribute to the memory of the departed dealer in 
Santa Cruz. 



48 FARRAES ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

About a mile further on we pass through a thriving little vil- 
lage called Fairbanks' Mills, also known as North Farmington. 

The road now bears to the left, and you cross the Sandy River 
by a covered bridge, your route laying along the valley many 
miles. At this point, whichever way you turn, the views of 
mountain and intervale are positively charming. 

Continuing up the valley the scenery grows wilder and more 
picturesque, and some miles beyond we reach a queer crook on the 
left of the road, at the foot of the Day Mountains known locally 
as the '' Devil's Elbow." Along here for half a mile the mountain 
descends to the river, there being just room at the base of the 
mountain to build the road. It is an uncomfortably narrow place 
for two teams to meet. There is quite a romance connected with 
this locality. 

Here for years lived an old Indian by the name of Pierpont, 
who in his younger days had deserted from his tribe, and strag- 
gled down to this point from Canada. His cabin stood at the foot 
of the mountain, a few rods from the road, and although it has 
long since disappeared, an old willow planted by the Indian when 
he first settled here, still stands as a monument to his memory, 
and in a storm its branches chant a dirge to his spirit, at rest we 
hope, in the happy hunting grounds of his belief. While living 
here he was always on good terms with the white settlers, but 
when his daughter died in mid winter, and none of the pale faces 
called upon him to express their sympathy, his too sensitive soul 
was hurt by their neglect, and burying the body in the snow un- 
til spring, he took it on his back and departed for Canada, and 
this was the last seen of the old red skin. When old Pierpont 
lived here he always had plenty of lead for his own use, and often 
sold it to his white friends, and it is supposed by many that some- 
where on Day Mountains is a lead mine. This tract of land has 
lately been sold to a Farmington gentleman, for quite a sum of 
money on account of its supposed mineral wealth. A fine view of 
these mountains may be obtained from the road near the house 
where the stage horses are changed. And by the way, we have a 
ludicrous bear story to relate in connection with the "Devil's 
Elbow." 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 49 



About fifteen years ago, the editor of the Farmington Chronicle 
was visiting Phillips. He had gone up one Saturday night to 
stop over Sunday, and a large Newfoundland dog he owned had 
followed unbeknown to him. The evening was very sultry, and 
as the dog was large and heavy, he became so tired when he 
reached the "Devil's Elbow," that he lay down in the road to 
rest. Soon after, some cowardly ignoramus approaching, discov- 
ered the dog, which he took for a bear. He immediately returned 
to a house and gave the alarm, and meeting the stage, that was 
also stopped, A band of five or six men were raised, and armed 
with pitchforks, guns, and a small rifled cannon, they marched in 
military array to do battle with the ferocious monster of the forest. 
Arriving within gunshot, the word to fire was given, and in a mo- 
ment more the poor dog died riddled with bullets, and the heroes 
of the occasion rushed forward in triumph to view their conquered 
foe, wishing to take his body to the village, as a trophy of their 
victory. When they found it was only a dog, they looked de- 
cidedly sheepish, and the leader of the enterprise might have 
been knocked over with a feather. The story was too good to 
keep, it found its way into the papers, and for several years, the 
parties who shot the dog, didn't hear the last of the " long-tailed 
bear." 

Winding around the "Devil's Elbow," you have a striking view 
of the mountain, which here rises almost perpendicularly above 
the road, for several hundred feet. On the other side of the 
mountain, about a mile from the road, is a pond where is excel- 
lent trout fishing. 

A few miles beyond, you diverge from the main road, to visit 
the post-ofiice at Strong. Here the Sakdy Kiver is crossed by 
means of a fine suspension-bridge, erected about ten years ago. 
Strong is a smart little place, and contains several very fine 
houses for a farming country. An excelsior factory furnishes the 
principal industry. After leaving the mail, the river is re-crossed, 
and we continue our ride along the main road. 

Arriving at Phillips, the stage draws up in front of the Bar- 
den House, and you meet with a hearty welcome from Mr. Sam- 
uel Farmer, the pleasant and genial host, who always does his 



50 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

best to make his guests feel at home, and succeeds so admirably, 
that many of them are sorry when they leave. If the evening is 
cool, a blazing fire in the open fire-place, throws a cheerful glow 
and comfortable heat about the room. 

The Barden House is well-furnished, and run in good shape, 
and the rooms are provided with spring beds and hair mat- 
tresses, and the tired traveler retires to rest, sure of a comfortable 
night's sleep. 

The fare from Farmington to Phillips, is $1.50. Lodging and 
breakfast at the Barden House will cost you $1.00. The regular 
terms for board at this house are $2.00 per day. A telegraph 
line, a private enterprise of the citizens, has been built from Far- 
mington to Phillips the past summer, thus bringing it into imme- 
diate connection with Boston and New York. The time from Far- 
mington to Phillips by stage is three hours. 

There is another good hotel in Phillips known as the Elmwood 
House, pleasantly situated on the main street. It is kept by Mr. 
E. D. Prescott. 

Persons having leisure to spend a few days or weeks in Phil- 
lips, will find many places of interest to attract their attention. 
About four miles from the Barden House, there is quite a curi- 
osity in the shape of an immense granite bowlder, about fifty feet 
high, one hundred and twenty-five feet through, and four hundred 
feet around the base. A singular fact in connection with this rock 
that on the land where it sits there are no rocks or ledges, it being 
the only rock in the vicinity. How it came there is a mystery. 
There are two mineral springs within a mile of the house, whose 
waters have proven very efficacious to invalids. The brook trout- 
ing in the vicinity of Phillips is unsurpassed, and all necessary 
information in regard to the streams and ponds may be obtained 
of Mr. Farmer. 





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CHAPTER X. 

N THE morning, Mr. H. T. Kimball's comfort- 
able stages leave the Bakden House at half-past 
seven, for Greenvale, eighteen miles distant. 
Fare, $2.00. Parties who wish to go in a private team, 
can procure one from Mr. Kimball at a reasonable 
price. 

The road follows the Sandy River Valley the most 
of the way, and six miles from Phillips we pass 
through the little village of Madrid, crossing the river at this 
point. A few miles beyond, the road crosses a high range of land 
known as Beech Hill, which is one of the spurs of Mount Sad- 
dleback, and is about twelve hundred feet above Phillips. From 
the top of this hill a magnificent view of the surrounding country 
may be obtained, including the Sandy River Valley and Ponds, 
and -numerous mountain peaks and ranges. 

Descending the hill towards Greenvale, a short ride brings you 
to the Sandy River Ponds, all laying near each other, on the 
right side of the road. Passing these you come to Long Pond, the 
source of the Androscoggin. It is only a stone's throw between 
Long Pond and Sandy River Ponds, and thus the Androscoggin 
and Kennebec Rivers come within an ace of being connected. In 
all of these ponds and streams along the road, the trout-fishing in 
the summer is excellent, and one can stop if they are going by 
private conveyance, and catch a string of fish to take along with 

them. 

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52 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

Continuing on we reach the head of Raxgelet Lake, which is 
1512 feet above tide water, and the stage stops at the Greexvale 
House, a well-kept and comfortable hotel, owned by Mr. H. T. 
Kimball, who is always attentive to the well-fare of his guests. 
The time from Phillips to Greenvale is four hours. 

The rooms are all well furnished, and as good a table s»fc at this 
house as at any in the Lake Region. Mr. Kimball has a good liv- 
ery stable, and persons who wish to spend a few days here, can 
obtain teams to take them in any direction. 

The head of Pvangeley Lake, near Kimball's, is noted for the 
excellence of its spring fishing. The largest trout that have ever 
been caught in any of the Upper Lakes, were caught in the 
Rangeley Lakc. 

A pleasant excursion may be made from here up to Kennebago 
Lake, eleven miles distant ; this is one of the prettiest lakes in 
Maine, and furnishes excellent trout fishing. 

At the Greenvale House, Mr. Kimball will provide you with 
an excellent dinner, at the moderate charge of fifty cents. 

After dinner, you embark on the jaunty little steamer, Molly- 
Chunkamunk, Capt. C. W. Howard, which leaves Kimball's 
daily at 2 P. M., for the Mountain Vieav House, at Rangeley 
Outlet, touching at Rangeley " City" on the way. The distance 
down the lake is ten miles. 

The Mountain View House has been built the past season, by 
Mb. H. T. Kimball, and is a great improvement over " Soule's 
Camp," which has been united with it ; the house as it now stands 
is owned entirely by Mr. Kimball, and is well appointed in all re- 
spects. It contains a dining .room, 24 feet long, an office, sitting 
room, and twenty sleeping rooms. The rooms are all lathed and 
plastered,, and the house contains excellent accommodation for 
ladies. It is two stories high, commands a fine view of the lake, 
and directly opposite, old Bald Mountain keeps watch and ward 
over it. The house presents an attractive appearance from the 
steamer as it approaches the wharf, and its sixty foot piazza, fur- 
nishes an excellent place for a promenade, or a chance to sit and 
chat, and enjoy the invigorating air and beautiful scenery. The 
terms at this house are $2.00 per day. The management of the 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 53 

house is in charge of Mrs. Soule, a lady favorably known to the 
habitues of this lake, and under whose care guests will receive 
every comfort. A large number of row boats are kept at this 
place to let, and may be obtained from Mr. George Soule, who is 
one of the oldest guides about the lake country. 

Now that a first-class hotel has been erected here, families will 
find this a very desirable place in which to spend the summer, as 
numerous excursions may be made from the hotel in all directions. 
The placing of a steamer on the Great Lake, enables parties to 
visit CupsuPTic, Bejiis Stream, the Upper Dam, and other places 
of interest, and return to the Mountain View House the same 
day 

Some of the best fishing places near the Hotel are over to the 
South Bog, at the Dam, and in the lake at the outlet. 

The Mountain View House is kept open from June 1st to 
October 1st. 

June and September are the two best months for fishing here, 
although plenty of trout may be found in July and August. 

Bald Mountain which stands directly opposite the Mountain 
View House commands a fine view of the surrounding country. 
Its ascent is not very difficult, and the beautiful landscape, it over- 
looks, will well repay any one for the time and trouble spent in 
making it. A guide is not really necessary, although perhaps it 
would be better to take one with you. 

Pennock's Camp on the opposite side of the outlet from Kim- 
ball's, is owned by the Oquossoo Angling Association. 

Lake Point Cottage, the property of Theodore Page, Esq., is 
very prettily situated on a little point that makes into the lake be- 
tween the Mountain View House and Pennock's. 

The " City," as the village of Rangeley is called, is three miles 
beyond Kimball's, and sets on the shore of the lake near the north- 
east arm. 

Rangeley is quite a village, it containing about twenty dwell- 
ing-houses, two stores, a post-office, carriage shop, two black- 
smith's shops, a boat builder's shop, a saw mill, shoe shop, and 
hotel, known as the Rangeley House, kept by Mr. E. Hinkley. 
Ground was broken here last September for a new and larger 



54 RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 

hotel, which is to be eligibly situated on high land, overlooking 
the lake, and it is expected to have the house finished in time for 
the travel this season. 

The town of Rangeley was named by a " squire " from England, 
lie bought the tract, named it, inhabited several years, a popular 
squire-arch, and then returned to merry England. The local gos- 
sip does not reveal any cause for Mr. Rangeley's fondness for con- 
trasts and exile. It is a great place for horse-flesh, and some of 
the finest trotters in the state were raised in or about Rangeley. 

Mr. L. H. Tibbetts, the boat builder at Rangeley, is the origina- 
tor of the celebrated ''Indian Rock" boat, which is superior to 
anything we have ever seen in the way of a wooden boat. For 
travel and pleasure on these lakes, they are unsurpassed. The 
model is very fine, they are easy rowing, fast, stiflF, and are safe in 
any blow you may be caught in on the lakes, and that is saying a 
good deal, for it blows sometimes as if Old Boreas himself were 
at the bellows. The original price of these boats was $60. each, 
but the price is now reduced to $50., and any person who wants a 
boat to use on the lakes, cannot do better, than to give Mr. Tib- 
betts an order. 

The sail across Rangeley Lake is delightful, especially at the 
time we made the trip, one lovely September afternoon, about sun- 
down, last season. As the boat steamed out from the shore, the 
sun was slowly setting behind a range of hills, throwing a broad 
flame of golden light far across the transparent waters of the lake ; 
the moon had just arisen, and from its full round disc came a 
silvery gleam of light, that danced across the rippling water, just 
rufled by the expiring wind, and blended with the dying sun- 
beams. The efi'ect was magnificent, and the additional beauty of 
cloud and mountain, seemed scarcely needed, to charm the eye 
and ravish the sense of the beholder. It was a scene long to be 
remembered. 

The course taken by the steamer carries you past Ram Island, 
which is seen to the left in our engraving, thence across the lake, 
by South Boo Island, and under the base of Bald Mountain, 
bringing up at the little wharf in front of Camp Henry. The fare 
across the lake by the steamer is $1.00. 




CHAPTER XI. 

ONTINUING on, you cross the "carry" from 
the <' outlet" to Indian Rock, walking a dis- 
tance of two miles, your luggage if you have 
any being hauled on a team. Here you reach 
Camp Kennebago, the head-quarters of the Oquos- 
soc Angling Association, which sets on rising 
ground, a few rods from the junction of the Kenne- 
bago and Rangelet streams. This camp is kept 
open from June to October, and is under the charge of Me. C. T. 
Richardson. 

]\Iany years ago an old hermit by the name of Smith camped at 
Indian Rock, and cleared up a small space of land. He after- 
wards sold out his interest in the place to Mr. Richardson, who 
built a rough camp for the accommodation of fishermen, which 
still sets near the river. Mr. Richardson after some years dis- 
posed of his interest in the place to the Oquossoc Angling Asso- 
ciation, who built the fine camp now used by the members, and 
made many valuable improvements on the ground. Mr. Richard- 
son was engaged by the Club as Superintendent, which position 
he has since held, at a salary of $600 per year. 

The Oquossoc Angling Association was incorporated Feb. 5th, 
1870, and now numbers some seventy members. The value of 
their property and improvements at Camp Kennebago, is about 
$20,000. The Association own several buildings beside their 
large camp, which is a building 40x100 feet ; they also own sev- 
,enteen boats. The meetings of the Association are held at their 
rooms in New York, at No. 10 Warren Street. Geo. Sheppard 
Page, of Stanley, N. J., is President; John H. Kimball, of Bath, 

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56 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

Me., Vice President; Lewis B. Reed, Jr., of New York City, Sec- 
retary ; and R. C. Allerton, of New York City, Treasurer. 

All fishing and shooting by members of the Association is con- 
ducted strictly in accordance with the game and fish laws of 
Maine, and the Association has been largely instrumental since 
its organization in preventing the breaking of the fish laws by 
wandering fishermen, and others who have no regard in the pres- 
ervation of the fishing. 

There are good accommodations for ladies at Camp Kennebago 
during the months of July and August, as at that time there are 
very few members of the Association in Camp. The regular rate 
of board in the Camp is $2.00 per day. Guides' board, (which is 
always paid by the party engaging the guide) $1.00 per day. 
Mr. Richardson, the Superintendent, will furnish guides at $2.00 
per day, and the celebrated *' Indian Rock " boats, at 50 cents 
per day. 

We present our readers with two views of Camp Kennebago. 
The first is made from the *' Rock," showing the Camp in the dis- 
tance. The second is an interior, showing the main appartment 
of the building, which is used for a sleeping room and sitting 
room. This is a very comfortable room, with a row of beds on 
each side, a long table in the middle, and an immense fire place 
in one corner, which is capable of holding half a cord of wood at 
a time, and is of itself quite a curiosity. Books, papers and a 
cabinet organ, help the members to while away the time in un. 
pleasant weather. The dining room opens out of the large room, 
and tables can be set for about forty people at once. 

In the month of June there is considerable trolling for trout on 
the MoosELUCMAGUNTic Lake. 

Leaving the hospitable roof of Camp Kennebago, you embark 
in one of the Indian Rock row boats, in charge of a guide, and 
glide swiftly down the stream, formed by the junction of the 
Rangeley and Kennebago, and enter the Cupsuptic Lake, which 
is 1486 feet above tide water. There are several fine places for 
fishing on the river, between the camp and the lake. Another ex. 
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The next point of interest is Bugle Cove, on Lake Mooseluc- 
MAGUNTic, five miles from Camp Kennebago, where is fine fishing. 

The distance from the mouth of the river to the head of Cupsup- 
Tic Lake is five miles, and the Cupsuptio River which empties 
into the head of the lake is navigable for boats, for five miles 
farther, the stream being free from rapids and falls. 

There is no " carry " between Cupsuptio and Mooselucmagun- 
Tic Lake, the two sheets of water being connected by a strip of 
"narrows," and thus you have one unbroken expanse of water 
for a distance of more than twenty miles, situated in the midst of 
a vast wilderness, and surrounded on all sides by hills and moun- 
tains, many of which are grand and picturesque. 

A local tradition explains the elongated name of this lake as 
follows : A hunter who was out after moose met with such poor 
success, that he almost famished. He said, "I had been four 
days without gafiie, and naturally without anything to eat except 
pine-cones and green chestnuts. There was no game in the forest. 
The trout would not bite, for I had no tackle or hook. I was 
starving. I sat down, and rested my trusty but futile rifle against 
a fallen tree. Suddenly I heard a tread, turned my head, saw a 
Moose, — took — my — gun, — tick ! he was dead. I was saved. 
I feasted, and in gratitude named the lake Moosetookmyguntick." 
The name has undergone some modifications since its origin, but 
it cannot be misunderstood. 

On the way to Bugle Cove, you pass Frye's Camp, which is 
pleasantly situated on the left hand shore of the lake near the 
water. 

Bugle Cove, formerly called ''Echo Cove," is remarkable for 
its wonderful echo, and for the excellence of its trout fishing. 
According to our ideas it is also one of the prettiest places on the 
great lake. 

R. G. Allerton, Esq., of New York City, has a camp at this 
place, known as Allerton Lodge. It has been built about two 
years and is one of the finest camps in the lake region. Its situa- 
tion is most romantic, setting as it does on a huge rock, which 
rises abruptly from the water to a height of fifty feet, and com- 
manding a fine view of the widest part of the lake. Directly be- 



58 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 



hind it, Bald Mountain rears its thickly wooded and precipitous 
sides to a height of 1000 feet. From the piazza of the house, a 
fine view is obtained of the Bemis Mountain Range, the Ele- 
phant's Hump, being one of the prominent landmarks. This 
range of mountains is about twelve miles southeast from the lodge. 
Looking westerly across the lake, the frowning peak of Aziscohos 
is seen, towering above the other mountains by several hundred 
feet. From its summit a magnificent view of the lake country 
may be obtained. 

From Bugle Cove to Brandy Point is the widest part of the 
lake, and is a distance of about six miles. Above Brandy Point, 
on the western side of the lake, are some forty or fifty small is- 
ands, which materially add to the beauty of that locality. From 
Bugle Cove to the Scoav Landing at the Upper Dam is about eight 
miles, and from Brandy Point to the Upper Dam about two 
miles. 

At Bugle Cove last September, a son of Jerry Ellis, who has 
charge of Allerton Lodge, caught a trout a short distance from 
the boat landing, that was twenty-four inches long, six and a-half 
inches wide, two and a-half inches thick, and weighed eight 
pounds, and yet Brother Murray says there is no trout fishing in 
Maine. 




CHAPTER XII. 

-EAVING Bugle Cove, you proceed down the 
lake, making a sort of detour, to visit Camp 
Bema, at the mouth of Bemis Stream. The dis- 
tance is 12 miles, and the sail is lovely. You pass 
Long Point, or the Cape, as it is sometimes called, 
on the left, turning into the Gut, with Gut or 
Student Island on your right ; pulling through 

this strait, which is thickly sprinkled with rocks, you reach a 
magnificent opening known as Bema Bay. Continuing on you 
pass Toothaker's Island, which is over a mile long, and on 
whose soil some immense trees have grown. A few years ago a 
large gang logged on this island all winter, and some of the largest 
logs were cut that ever grew in the state. There has also been 
considerable logging done at different times on Gut Island. 

On the left shore of the bay, opposite Toothaker's Island, 
there is an immense rock, in which is quite a cave, making it 
worth a visit from the curious. At the foot of the bay, the Bemis 
Stream empties into the lake, and here is a splendid sand beach, 
semi-circular in shape, and over a mile in extent. 

Camp Bema, which consists of nine log cabins all in a row, 
stands a few rods from the shore, facing west, and commands a 
fine landscape view. On the right. Bald Mountain is just vis- 
ible in the distance, its crest appearing above several lower hills 
that intervene. On the left, the Bemis Mountain Range, stretches 
away for miles, and directly in front, is the vast expanse of water, 
with Toothaker's Island and Gut Island prominent, and far be- 
yond are the mountains that lay along the Magalloway River. 

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60 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

Camp Bema is owned by Messrs. George Sheppard Page, L. L. 
Crounse, and H. M. Hutchinson, who spend several weeks at this 
charming place, each year during the fishing season. 

These gentlemen lease two townships of the lumbering com- 
pany, and thus are secure from disagreeable neighbors. They 
are very much interested in fish breeding, and three miles from 
their camp, up the Bemis Stream, they have built a hatching 
house, and had several breeding ponds constructed, where last 
year, (1875) were spawned 250,000 trout. We saw several of the 
trout, a year old, which were about six inches long. The fish 
culture here has been under the charge of Henry 0. Stanley, 
Esq., the Assistant Fish Commissioner of Maine, who has had ex- 
cellent luck, as from 95 to 98 per cent, of the trout spawn propo- 
gated, became fish. 

During the spring and fall the fishing is good at Bemis, but 
there is no part of the summer, when you cannot catch fish 
enough to eat. The time for the appearance of the trout varies, 
some years they come several weeks earlier than others. 

These gentlemen, as well as the Oquossoc Angling Association 
have been instrumental in preserving the fish, and seeing that the 
laws are properly enforced. It was formerly the habit of local 
fishermen to come to Bemis in January and February, fish through 
the ice with set hooks, sometimes having as many as fifty hooks 
on one line. But this outrageous business was stopped, by sev- 
eral of the parties being caught and prosecuted, and fined quite 
heavily. A person who has no more principle than to fish in this 
manner, should be severely punished. 

Parties are not allowed to camp at Bemis Stream without per- 
mission of the gentlemen leasing this land. 

The land through which the Bemis Stream flows, is flat for 
some little distance back from the lake, and in the spring, when 
the gates are down the water flows back a long way, and the mouth 
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And FRANKLIN WHARF, PORTLAND, 

Every Evening at 7 o'clock, Sundays excepted. 

The Steamers of this lineare first-class, and theaccommodations are unrivalled. 
Passengers taking the Boat secure a comfortable night's rest, and arrive in sea- 
son to connect with the earliest morning trains. Baggage transferred to and 
from the G. T. Railway Depot free of charge. Passengers holding Rail Tickets 
between Boston and Portland, aud wishing to take the Boat can present such 
tickets at the oflBce on board, and the difference in fare will be refunded. 

J. B. COYLE, Jr., General Agent, Portland. 

Oriental Powder Mills, 

MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF 

GUNPOWDER. 

Office 13 BROAD STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 

Agencies in the Principal Cities in the United States. 

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CHAPTER XIII. 



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E NOW leave Bemts Stream for the Upper 
Dam, a distance of seven miles. In going to 
Scow Landing, you pass Tooiihaker's Is- 
land on your right, and reaching the main 
portion of the lake again, you have a fine 
view of several of the highest mountains in 
that section of the country, among the most 
prominent of which are Deer Mountain, 
East and West Kennebago, Aziscohos, Ob- 
servatory, Bald Head, the Saddle Back 
and Bemis Ranges. 

On your way from Bemis to the Upper 
Dam, you pass several eligible places for 
camping, on the left shore of the lake, where wood and water are 
plenty, and not a great way from good fishing ground. 

After getting fairly out of the bay, you turn to the left, and a 
two mile pull, brings you to Scow Landing. Walking about a 
quarter of a mile, you reach the Upper Dam Camp, which we have 
described in the " Middle Route." 

Last year in September, when we visited the lakes there was a 
project being canvassed, which if carried through, would materi- 
ally reduce the distance and the time, to reach the Upper Dam 
by the " Upper Route." The idea was to cut a road across the 
South Boo from Oquossoc to Mooselucmaguntic Lake, and place 

a steamer on the latter lake. Passengers by the " Upper Route," 

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could then take the steamer Molly-Chunkamunk at Greeny ale, 
or the ** City," (Rangeley,) and sail down the lake to the South 
Boo Road, cross the " carry " in a team, the distance being about 
four miles, then take the steamer on the Great Lake, and run 
down to Scow Landing, making the trip from Kimball's to the 
Upper Dam in about two hours. Should this be done the route 
will be exceedingly popular. 










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CHAPTER XIV. 

ROUTE VIA NORTH STRATFORD, 

fi PORTLAND by boat or cars, as already describe*!, 
thence by Grand Trunk Railroad to North Strat- 
ford, thence to Colebrook, Dixville Notch, and 
Errol Dam, by stage, thence by Steamer Diamond 
across Lake Umbagog to " Inlet," then row-boat up the 
river to "Five Mile Rapids," walk the carry, five miles 
to the Middle Dam. Time, two days from Boston. 
Fare $13.00. 

This is a remarkably pleasant route, and costs but little more 
than the others. After passing Bethel, on your way North, many 
of the White Mountain peaks are in sight from the train. At 
Gorham, parties whose objective point is Mount Washington, leave 
the cars, and take the stage for the Glen House, eight miles dis- 
tant. Mount Hayes, on the right of the railroad, is one of the 
finest mountains in the vicinity of Gorham, and its ascent from 
the village is comparatively easy. A fine view of Mount Carter, 
the Imp, and Mount Moriah is to be obtained from Gorham. 

The next station above Gorham is Berlin Falls, and here the 
Androscoggin River may be seen to its best advantage. Some of 
the finest rapids to be met with in New England are to be found 
here, and one can follow the river up or down for miles, and find 
a beautiful water view at every point. There is a good hotel in 
this locality, known as the Mount Forist House, where one may 

spend a few days pleasantly. 

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From Berlin, the road runs through Milan, West Milan, Stark, 
Groveton Junction, where the Boston, Concord and Montreal Rail- 
road connects with it, Stratford Hollow, Beatties, and North 
Stratford, our terminus by rail. 

The scenery the whole way is very fine, and tourists will find 
it to their advantage, to stop a few days at Colebrook, Dixville 
Notch, and Errol Dam, and improve the facilities ofi"ered in each 
of those locations for hunting and fishing. 

Parties wishing to stop at Errol will find an excellent hotel, 
about a mile from the dam, on the main road from the Notch, 
pleasantly situated near the Androscoggin River. It is kept by a 
gentleman of long experience in the business, Mr. Wm. W. Bragg, 
and is known as Bragg's Hotel. The terms are from $1.50 to 
$2.00 per day. There is a livery stable connected with the house, 
and teams can be hired at reasonable price?, enabling the tourist to 
take advantage of the many desirable drives in the vicinity. 
Pleasant excursions may also be made from here on the steamer 
Diamond, across Lake Umbagog, and up the Androscoggin and 
Magalloway Rivers. The trout fishing in this vicinity is excel- 
lent, and Mr. Bragg will inform you where you will meet with the 
best success in throwing a fly. 

The hotel at Errol has been enlarged and improved the past 
winter, with reference to the needs of tourists and fishermen 
the coming season, and those who avail themselves of Mr. Bragg's 
hospitality, we feel assured will be well satisfied. 




CHAPTER XV. 

UMBAGOG AND RICHARDSON LAKES, 

Y THIS route one may leave Boston from Boston 
and Maine Depot at 7.30 A. M., or from Boston 
and Lowell Depot, Causeway street, at 8 A. M., pass- 
ing through Concord, Plymouth, Littleton and Lan- 
caster, arriving at Groveton Junction at 6.48 P. M., 
where connection is made with the Grand Trunk 
Railroad, arriving at North Stratford at 8.15 P. M, 
Or you may leave either of the depots mentioned above at 12 M., 
arriving at Plymouth at 5.30 P. M., stopping over night, and the 
next morning take the 7.35 A. M. train, passing through places 
previously mentioned, arriving at Groveton Junction at 12.35 P. 
M., and reach North Stratford at 1.20 P. M. Stages for Cole- 
BBOOK connect with both the afternoon and evening train. This 
will be found a very pleasant route, equal to any of the others, 
and one of the interesting features is that you are in sight of some 
body of water, almost the entire distance to Groveton Junction- 
Among some of the rivers and lakes passed while riding over this 
route, may be mentioned the Charles and jMystic Rivers, the Mer- 
rimac, whose praises have been extolled by the poet "Whittier ; the 
Suncook and Winnepesaukee Rivers ; Lake Winnesquam, Little 
Bay, Lake Winnepesaukee, Waukawan Lake, Long Pond, Pemige- 
wasset, and Baker's Rivers ; the beautiful Connecticut, the bound- 
ary line between New Hampshire's rugged hills, and the green 
peaks of Vermont ; Wells, Ammonoosuc, and other smaller streams 
and ponds. The road also passes in sight of the falls at Lawrence, 

Lowell, Amoskeag, and Hooksett. 

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66 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

At Long Pond, the road runs across the base of Ragged Moun- 
tain, whose rocky sides have been levelled by blasting to allovs^ 
passage of trains. 

The approach to Plymouth is very beautiful, the road following 
the Pemigewasset River, which flows tranquilly along, through 
lovely meadows, dotted here and there with graceful elms. On 
either side are wooded hills, which descend by easy grade to the 
valley below ; away in the distance you will notice the Franconia 
Mountains, forming a noble background to the picture. The train 
stops very near the Pemigewasset House, which is a first-class 
hotel, and under whose roof you will undoubtedly pass the night, 
if you have left Boston by the noon train. From Plymouth there 
is an excellent stage-route to the Franconia Mountains. 

From Plymouth the train runs through the valley of Baker's 
River, with nothing worthy of mention in sight, until you reach 
Warren ; five miles from this village is Mooselauke Mountain, 
4, GOO feet high, a fine view of which may be obtained from the 
right of the cars, going North. 

Beyond Wells River the route lies beside the Ammonoosuc for 
several miles. Passing Littleton, from which stages run to the 
Franconia Mountains, you continue on for seven miles, passing 
the Wing Road which here branches to the right, and extends to 
the foot of Mount Washington. The next place worthy of note 
on the main line is Whitefield, where extensive lumbeHng opera- 
tions are carried on. We now reach Lancaster, one of the pret- 
tiest villages in New Hampshire. A stage-route connects this 
place with JeflFerson, eight miles distant. 

From Lancaster we continue on to Groveton Junction, where 
connection is made with the Grand Trunk Railroad for North 
Stratford and Colebrook. Tourists will find the Stratford 
Peaks, which are in this vicinity worthy of more than a passing 
notice. Bold, rugged and barren, these twin cones tower towards 
the blue sky, forming a prominent feature of the landscape. 
The time by this route is two days from Boston. Fare $10.70. 



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Portland with Eastern, Boston and Maine, Portland and Ogdensburg. Portland 
and Rochester, and Grand Trunk Railroads, and Steamers fcr Boston, New York, 
and Eastern Ports. 

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CHAPTER XVI. 



FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAINS TO THE 
RANGELEY LAKE REGION, 




E SHALL select as oui' point of departure, 
the Glen House at the foot of Mount Washing- 
ton, on the Eastern side of the mountains. 
Leaving the Glen at eight o'clock, A. M., a beau- 
tiful stage ride of eight miles brings you to Gorham, 
where you connect with the 7 o'clock up train 
from Portland. The fare from the Glen to Gorham 

is $2.00. 

Taking the cars, you pass rapidly through Berlin Falls, Milan, 
Stark, Groveton, Stratford Hollow, Beatties, to North Stratford, 
arriving at twenty minutes past one. Here you have dinner, and 
after dinner take the stage for Colebrook, 13 miles distant. A 
ride of two hours, and you reach the Parsons House, where you 
stop over night. 

The ride to Colebrook up the Connecticut, is really beautiful. 
From time to time a view of a broad intervale, with the glittering 
river sweeping through it in a stately curve, will make you regret 
that the horses were not slower, that you might the more leisurely 
feast your eyes on the charming panorama unrolling before you. 

The next morning you continue your journey in one of Mr. Bai- 
ley's comfortable mountain wagons, for a distance of ten miles, 
reaching the Dix House, just at the edge of the Notch at ten 
o'clock. Or you may leave the Glen House in the afternoon, con- 
necting at Gorham with the 1.20 P. M. train from Portland, reach- 

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68 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

ing North Stratford at 8,15 P. M., and Colebrook at 10 P. M., 

as the Colebrook stage connects with both the morning and even- 
ing trains on the Grand Trunk road. The stage runs three times 
a week, down through the Notch to the Errol Dam. 

At the Dix HousK, you will find excellent accommodations at 
$2.00 per day. The house is kept by Mr. George PARSo>fs, and 
has a good livery stable connected with it. 

This hotel was built new last summer, (1875) and will accom- 
modate about fifty people. It is considered as only an L to the 
main house, which is to be 36x160 on the ground, and three 
stories high, the establishment containing when finished about 150 
rooms. Work is to be commenced on the main building this sum- 
mer. 

The Dix House was formerly opened to the traveling public, on 
Wednesday, July 4th, 1875. The township in which the build- 
ing is located, was formerly owned by the father of Ex-Gover- 
nor Dix of New York. At the opening, several distinguished 
gentlemen were present as guests of the proprietor, among them 
Ex-Governor Dix, in whose honor the house was named. 

Lovers of the gun and rod will find excellent sport in this 
vicinity, while the pleasure-seeker and tourist will be delighted 
with the scenery, by which the house is surrounded. Raspberries 
grow in luxurious profusion near the hotel, and in their season 
one can always procure plenty of this delicious fi'uit. 

In this connection we cannot do better than to quote from that 
valuable hand-book of mountain travel, Eastman's White Moun- 
tain Guide. Of Dixville Notch the author says : 

** The first view is very impressive it opens like a Titanic gate- 
way to some region of vast mysterious dcsjolation. The pass is 
much narrower than either of those in the White Mountains, 
and, through its whole extent of a mile and a quarter, has more 
the character of a Notch. One cannot but feel that the moun- 
tain was rent apart by some volcanic convulsion, and the two sides 
left to tell the story by their correspondence and the naked 
dreariness of the pillars of rotting rock that face each other. So 
narrow is the ravine (it can hardly be called a pass) that a rough 
and precarious roadway for a single carriage could only be con- 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAlKES. 69 

structed by building up against the mountain's side a substruc- 
ture of rude masonry, while the walls slope upward so sharply 
on either hand that a considerable outlay is demanded of the 
State every year to clear it of the stones and earth which the frosts 
and rain roll in to it every winter and spring. 

. No description can impart an adequate conception of the mourn- 
ful grandeur of the decaying cliflFs of mica slate which overhang 
the way. They shoot up in most singular and fantastic shapes, 
and vary in height from four hundred to eight hundred feet. A 
few centuries ago the pass must have been very wild, but the pin- 
nacles of rock, which gave the scenery such an Alpine character, 
are rapidly crumbling away. Some have decayed to half their 
original height ; and the side walls of the Notch are strewn with 
debris, which the ice and storms have pried and gnawed from the 
decrepit cliffs. The whole aspect is one of ruin and wreck. The 
creative forces seem to have retreated from the spot, and abandon- 
ed it to the sport of the destructive elements. One might enter- 
tain the thought that some awful crime had been committed there, 
for which the region was blasted by a lasting curse. 

One should climb the highest pinnacle, called Table Rock, which 
juts out from the southerly wall of the pass, and stands about 
eight hundred feet above the road. It is no easy task to keep the 
footing in the steep ascent over the loose and treacherous ruins of 
slate that strew the way. Hands and feet are necessary. Table 
Rock is a narrow, projecting ledge, only some six or eight feet 
wide at the summit, and about a hundred and fifty feet long, ris- 
ing in almost unbroken precipice on each side for several hun- 
dred feet. The descent is even more arduous than the ascent. It 
will be found, however, that the view from the summit repays the 
toil of the scramble. It is no small trial for w^eak nerves to walk 
out upon the side of the Notch upon this cliff, not more than six 
feet wide and eight hundred feet sheer down. No part of the 
ride up Mt. Washington makes the head swim so giddily. From 
it one can easily see into Maine, Vermont, and Canada. Only a 
few miles east lies Lake Umbagog, where the moose congregate in 
the evening to stand up to their neck in water and " fight flies," 
as the guides express it. About ten miles north is Lake Connect!- 



70 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

cut, a beautiful sheet of water, mother of the noble river which is 
the pride of New England. A tourist might spend a few days 
very profitably in exploring the novelties of the districts that 
lie around the Notch. On the face of this cliff, seen from be- 
low, some locate the usual Profile, without which a mountain pass 
is regarded as incomplete. 

After about an hour's stay upon the pinnacle, one should de- 
scend and ride through the pass to a flume just before the east- 
ern gateway is reached. Nearly opposite the entrance to the 
flume will be found a remarkably cold spring. On the opposite 
side of the road, in the woods, just beyond the Notch, there is a 
series of beautiful cascades, extending nearly a mile, surpassed 
in beauty and volume by none in the whole White Mountain 
region. 

The grand distinctive features of Dixville Notch are desolation 
and decay. How charming, then, the surprise, in passing 
through the Notch eastward, to ride out from its spiky teeth of 
slate into the most lovely plain, called " The Clear Stream Mea- 
dows," embosomed in mountains, luxuriantly wooded to the crown. 
It is something like descending from the desolation of the Alps 
into the foliage and beauty of Italy. The only house near was 
accidentally burned a few years since. The graves of the earliest 
settler and his wife are there, fenced off rudely, and overgrown 
with tall weeds which nature wears for them. How many of the 
great and wealthy of our land will find such a cemetery ? A 
mountain range for a monument ; a luxuriant yalley for a grave ; 
such silence to sleep in as no Mt. Auburn can assure, and their 
story told to visitants from fiir-oflf portions of the land ! " 

Having spent a couple of days at Dixville Notch, you take a 
team at the Dix House at 11 in the morning, and drive easterly 
through the Notch, across the Clear Stream Meadows, and thence 
through a lovely country, a distance of 15 miles, arriving at the 
Errol Dam on the Androscoggin River, at 4 o'clock, connecting 
with the little steamer " Diamond," to which you transfer your- 
self and sail up the river to the lake a distance of four miles, 
thence across the lake four miles, to the Inlet, where you change 
for a row boat. The balance of the trip is made same as by " Low- 



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RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 71 

er Route," reaching Middle Dam Camp about 7 o'clock in the 
evening. This is one of the finest trips for tourists in New Eng_ 
land, and we cannot too highly recommend it. The Profile at 
DixviLLE Notch is equal if not superior to the " Old Man of the 
Mountain," at Franconia, over which so many writers have grown 
enthusiastic, and the Flume and Cascades on the eastern side of 
the Notch, are equal to anything to be found in the White or Fran- 
conia Mountains, while the scenery along the road the entire dis- 
tance from the Notch to the Errol Dam is one succession of beau- 
tiful pictures. 

The fare from the Glen House to the Middle Dam Camp by this 
route will be about $10.00. 

. Travelers in the White Mountains who wish to visit the 
Rangeley Lake Region without going through Dixville Notch, 
after leaving the stage at Gorham, can go down the Grand Trunk 
road to either Bethel or Bryant's Pond, and then proceed as we 
have described in the Lower and Middle Routes ; the fare from 
the Glen House to the Middle Dam Camp by the way of either 
Upton or Andover, would be about $8.50. 

Parties from Boston who wish to visit the lakes by the way of 
Dixville Notch, will find it quicker to take the boat from Boston 
to Portland, and the next morning take the seven o'clock train on 
the Grand Trunk Railroad, which will enable them to reach the 
Dix House at the Notch the same night. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



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AND THE MAGALLOWAY RIVER. 



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PORTSMEN visiting this lake have a choice 
of routes during the first half of the trip. 
From Boston to Portland by either route 
previously described. At Portland take 
the cars on the Grand Trunk Railroad to 
Bryant's Pond, thence via. Andover, by 
stage, buck-board and boat to the Middle 
Dam, walk across the ''carry," and go 
down the river by row boat to the Inlet, where you take the 
steamer, thence across Lake Umbagog, and down the Androscog- 
gin to the Magalloway River. 

Or you may leave the Grand Trunk Railroad at Bethel, thence 
to Upton by stage, then by steamer down the Cambridge River, 
across Lake Umbagog, and down the Androscoggin to the Ma- 
galloway River. 

Or leaving the railroad at Bethel, you can drive direct to 
Errol Dam, and take the steamer there. 

The distance from Lake Umbagog to Parmachenee, is about 
seventy miles, and the first eight or ten miles can be done on the 
steamer, with your boat in tow. Before reaching the steamer 

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RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 73 

landing, you pass Bottle Brook on the west side of the river, a 
good place to throw a fly for trout. 

Arriving at the steamer landing, which is in a district known 
as Wextworth's Location, you get into your boat, cast off, and 
pull up the river. Soon after leaving the steamer you come to 
the head quarters of the Berlin Mills Lumbering Company. 
There is a hotel here, the Berlin Mills House, where you will 
find good accommodations at $2.00 per day. Five or six miles 
above this point are Escohos Falls, where is fine trout fishing. 
As you pull on up the river, you notice Mount Dustan ofi" to the 
"West, its sloping sides covered with a growth of dark spruce, giv- 
ing it a somber appearance. Its altitude is 2,575 feet above the sea 
level. Due north the great white peak of Azis'cohos — the highest 
mountain in this vicinity, and one of the highest in Maine — 
rises almost to the snow line. We have before spoken of it, as 
furnishing a magnificent view of the entire lake region, and some 
tourists think the view from its summit superior to that from 
Mount Washington, Its ascent from this point is quite easy, and 
we quote here from a private journal, giving a good idea of the 
time and labor spent in reaching its summit. The writer says : 

*< We went up through the settlement and turned oflF from the 
road to the east, passing through the pastures ; about two miles 
from camp we entered the forest and commenced the ascent of the ■ 
mountain. The path if it can be culled such, is made by spotting 
the trees, (hewing small places on their trunks to guide travelers 
on their way,) but even this was so obscure, that it was with con- 
siderable difficulty that we could keep the trail. The distance 
from the commencement of the ascent to the summit is two miles, 
much of it being very steep, making the task of climbing it by no 
means an easy one. After toiling up the steep path a while, the 
light suddenly came streaming through the thick forest, and we 
soon came out among the ti'ees over beautiful beds of thick green 
moss, covering huge square masses of granite of which this moun- 
tain is composed. Many of the blocks were as square and as 
straight as though split by art. The quality is rather course and 
the color almost white. There were also large quantities of the 
little snow white cranberries, which grow so plentifully in these 



74 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

northern latitudes among the moss. They were covered with fruit 
just ripe and of delicious flavor. Passing these we soon reached 
the easterly summit which is the highest. The mountain is cov. 
ered with forest, all but about one thousand acres of the summit 
which has been burned over and is one immense blueberry field, 
except a few acres of the top which is bare and rugged granite. 
The view from the top amply repaid us for the labor of the ascent, 
and is I think the finest I ever saw, not eveti excepting that seen 
from Mount Washington. Standing on the extreme peak the eye 
takes in the whole horizon. Away in the south lies Umbagog 
Lake, a little further east, the Richakdson Lakes, over beyond 
and connecting with them, is the Mooselucmaguntic Lake, with 
two large and densely wooded islands in the centre. Still further 
to the north-east is the Raxgeley Lake, with its little town of 
the same name lying on the hillside beyond, and there were others 
whose names I could not ascertain. In the South could be traced 
the course of tlie beautiful Magalloway, which sparkled in the 
sunlight, a silver ribbon, as it wound its circuitous course up 
through the forest clad country until lost to view under the moun- 
tain. Over it could be seen jNIount "Washington and the whole 
chain of the White Mountains towering up against the southern 
sky like a gigantic barrier between vis and the country beyond 
them. In the east Katahdin lifted his lofty peak far away in the 
distance, the noble rival of Mount AVashington and but five hun- 
red feet lower. Between us and that could be seen the great 
basin of Moosehead- Lake, but we were not high enough to see the 
water. From this point around to the north and west is one vast 
forest extending as far as the eye can reach, the horizon being 
bounded by mountains. The blueberries are just in their prime 
and we feasted upon them until we could eat no longer. They 
were of very large size, and the ground was blue with them. I 
had the curiosity to measure one, and found it to be one inch and 
three-fourths in circumference, and I counted twenty-seven large 
and fully ripe berries in one cluster. The wind was very strong 
and high on the summit, and we built a large fire in order to keep 
comfortable. We stopped on the summit over an hour, and re- 
turned to camp at about five o'clock, exceedingly pleased with our 



RANGELET AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 75 

first, but by no means last excursion to the summit of Aziscohos." 
To the north-west the Diamond Peaks disphxy their rectan- 
gular crags, disclosing a "wild, narrow valley, down which rushes 
and tumbles the Swift Diamond Stream. The valley resounds 
to the roar of its cascades. It unites with the Magalloway at this 
place. The Diamond is considered one of the finest trout streams 
in this vicinity. There are occasional clearings and old camps 
along the banks of the river, where lumbering operations have 
been previously carried on, but no cultivated clearings for a space 
of six or seven miles above the Lower Settlement. Tlie current 
for this whole distance is disagreeably strong — to a party going 
up. 

There is also a short piece of rapids, just before reaching Esco- 
iios Falls, that will considerably try the muscles of any oarsman. 
Above this rapid you must make a carry around the falls, a dis- 
tance of two or three miles, but you can obtain a team in the 
neighborhood, which will draw your boat and traps around for 
$3.00. 

A little beyond Mr. Flint's house, the carry path diverges 
from the road, and leads up tlirough a pasture fur a hundred rods 
or more, then enters the woods. This pasture is the extreme limit 
of the cleared land on the river. Beyond it lays the great wilder- 
ness. At this place the Magalloway falls over a long succession 
of ledges down the ravine between Aziscohos and Parker Hill, 
so called. The entire length.of the fall is variously estimated at 
from two hundred to three hundred feet. 

As you go up through the pasture, there is a good view of the 
river valley below, and of a great semi-circular mountain to the 
west of it, called the Halfmoon. From this point to the head of 
Parmachenee it is forty-six miles. 

The upper end of the falls where you come out of the carry 
road is a very wild-looking place. 

The stream, black as ink and overhung with struggling spruce, 
rolls tumultuosly down over huge stones, The roar is heavy and 
continuous. Some of the " pitches " show a perpendicular fall of 
twenty feet or more. In one of these a few years ago a lumber- 
man was drowned. His name [Jack Abram) is cut in a spruce 



76 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

trunk at the foot of the pitch. Whether his spirit wanders about 
the spot at midnight we know not, although strange sights and 
sounds are sometimes seen and heard there. 

Above this point there is smooth water up to The Narrows, ten 
miles ; the river averages from six to ten. rods in width. It is 
deep and black, an aspect enhanced by the fir forest on either 
bank, dark green, sombre, and profoundly quiet. The most no- 
ticeable feature about the stream is its silence. The current creeps 
on steadily. If you stop rowing, it drags you slowly back. The 
crooks and bends are numerous. The peaks of moderately high 
mountains on both sides of the river valley are from time to time 
to be seen over the fir tops. Aziscohos is now before you, and 
then behind according to the crooks and turns of the river ; then 
to the left and right. A tall, dark hill, known as "Emery's 
Misery," plays similar tricks. Beaver Hill, a pine clad ridge to 
the east of the valley, is also noticeable. 

There are many excellent camping places to be met with aloeig 
the banks of the river, and one can make a choice. Wood and 
water, the great requisites for camp life are plenty at every point. 

Ducks, partridges, and other game are to be met with along the 
river, and taken in addition to the trout will keep the larder well 
supplied. 

The current in the Narrows is very swift, and a good long rope 
is a handy thing to have with you, as you can tow your boat up 
by walking along the shore, keeping one in the boat to fend ofi" 
from the bank. The stream here is not more than twenty 
feet wide, with a high ledge on each side, and through this nar" 
row channel the current runs like a mill sluice. 

A short distance abovq the Narrows you pass Metallic Poxn, 
a pretty little expanse opening into the Magalloway by a broad 
outlet on the west side. There are two Metallic Ponds. The 
other is on the east side of the river, and is not in sight from it, 

A few miles farther up, and you emerge from the evergreen 
forest, and reach The Meadows, which extend for twelve miles 
alons: the banks, and are of themselves worth a visit. Scattered 
over this land are some of the finest elm trees you ever saw. 
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more crooked if possible than below. Round wood berries are 
very thick in this locality, and it is assex'ted by men who have 
logged in this region in winter, that robins often pass the winter 
here, living on the berries. 

Leaving The Meadows behind, you once more enter the fir 
woods, and soon strike a rapid, that although not difficult to pass 
will tell on your muscles by the time you get to the end of it. 

About a mile above this rapid are the " great rips," and as the 
banks on both sides are very unfavorable for a tow-line, the best 
thing you can do, is to wade up the bed of the stream, and tow 
your boat behind you, the water not being over two feet deep. 
Our illustration at the end of the chapter gives an idea of the 
way you do it. 

A hundred rods above this place are the Forks, with the Little 
Magalloway, which joins the main stream from the north-west. 

At this point Mr. T. S. Flint has built a camp for the accom- 
modation of fishermen, where you can procure board if you de- 
sire at the regular rates. He also keeps a horse, to haul boats 
across the carry for those who wish to have their boats on the 
lake. 

Leaving the main river at this point, you pull up the Little 
Magalloway, for a short distance and land at a place where you 
will see traces of many camp-fires, made by the campers-out who 
have from time to time invaded this solitude. The carry from 
here to the lake is four miles, and by the time you get your boat 
across you will think it is five. 

The path is quite dry and winds among a heavy spruce growth, 
until you reach the " great gorge," and here there is an opening, 
where the trees have been partially felled. A fevv rods beyond 
are the lake and dam. 

The dam at the foot of the lake Is built of spruce logs, and has 
five gates, set in ponderous hewn frames. There is a machine con- 
sisting of iron cog-wheels and levers, for hoisting these. The en- 
tire length of the dam is about one hundred and fifty, feet. A day 
or two can be spent very pleasantly camping at the gorge going up 
or coming down. 

Leaving. the gorge, you pull up the outlet above the dam, pass- 



78 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

ing a large brook that runs into the main stream from between 
two hills on the east side. It is said there are beaver in this 
stream, but we cannot vouch for them. 

From the dam up to the lake proper at Look Point, it is about 
a mile. 

On the east side of the outlet, a forest fire has killed the growth 
far up the ridge, and the dead trunks have fallen in every direc- 
tion. 

Near the lake the outlet bends sharply to the west, around a 
bushy point. Doubling this, the lake in all its beauty lies spread 
out before you, and it certainly is one of the most beautiful sheets 
of water I have ever seen. 

It is not so large as Mooselucmaguntic, Umbagog, or perhaps 
a score of others, but it is prettier than them all. Its entire 
length is not more than five miles ; and its greatest breath, from 
the mouth of Moose Brook on the east shore to the foot of Bose- 
BucK Cove at the south-west corner, is not over four miles. 

Most of the Maine lakes are long and narrow ; Parmachexee 
is an exception. It fills a natural basin, walled about by high, 
wooded hills, some of which are mountains of note. Bose-Buck, 
at the foot of the cove of the same name, is one of the finest cone- 
shaped peaks in New England. 

Two hunters, with their dog Bose, were skirting the lake, — as 
the story runs. For some days they had shot nothing, and were 
sufi'ering for food. As they passed the foot of the cove, Bose 
started a buck, which ran directly up the side of the mountain, 
till the dog overtook and pulled it down. So they named the 
peak Bose' s-Buck. 

In the north-east, too, a very high blue mountain is visible over 
the nearer peaks. This is one of the Boundary Mountains. 
Over all the hills which border the lake shores, a heavy mixed 
growth comes down to the water's edge. 

On the west side, above the cove, there is a grand slope leading 
up from the shore, for a mile, to the height of land. 

There are no islands in the lower part of the lake. Toward the 
northern end and above Indian Field Point, there is a chain of 
three wooded islets extending down in a line ; and above these 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 79 

there are numerous curious floating islands, some of an acre in 
extent, which, rise and fall with the lake surface. 

An hour's rowing will bring you up to Indian Point, which 
from the south side seems a part of the north shore, but which in 
reality separates the lake from a roomy expanse of a square mile 
or more, known as Indian Cove. 

Passing between the second and third of the wooded islands, 
you enter the inlet where the Magalloway enters the lake. Fol- 
lowing the Magalloway for a quarter of a mile, you reach an old 
logging camp, known as " Cleaveland's Camp." This is a good 
place to establish your head-quarters, although of course there 
are plenty of other places where one may camp if they chose. 

One place especially we recommend, about half a mile from 
Cleveland's Camp, known as Little Boy's Falls. There are 
several ponds in this vicinity, where the trout fishing is excel- 
lent. 

The middle of September is the best time to visit this lake, as 
then the trout fishing is excellent. Game of all kinds is plenty 
here, and it is not promising our readers too much to say, that if 
they are ordinary good hunters they may bring back a deer, and 
even a moose. The trip is one that cannot be made in a hurry, 
and three weeks at least should be devoted to it, as ten days of the 
time will be spent in coming and going. 

A party composed of four persons and a guide, which is as 
large as any party should be, can make the trip from Boston 
to Parmachenee and return, being absent from the city three 
weeks at an expense of $50. each. This would be sufficient to 
cover the cost of the guide's services, $2.50 per day. 

As it is sometimes desirable to engage the services of your 
guide before leaving Boston, we give the names of several of the 
best guides to Parmachenee Lake. Their post-office address is 
Wentworth's Location, N. H. 

NAHUM BENNETT, PETER BENNETT, 2d, 

SPOFFORD FLINT, GEORGE FLINT. 

DANIEL HARRINGTON, or "NINETY." 
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the air is clear and bracing, and will give a dyspeptic individual 
an appetite that will astonish him, and he can satisfy the cravings 
of his stomach, without fears of paying a penalty afterwards, for 
the exercise about the woods will keep his digestive organs in 
good order. Life in a tent for three weeks on the romantic shores 
of Parmachekee, will do more good for him than all the doctors 
in Boston could in three years. Nature is a skilful physician, and 
to the over-worked business man, and all others who feel a rest- 
less longing for change, we say, start for the Maine woods, leav- 
ing all care behind you, and our word for it, you will come back 
to the city a healthier and better man. The " i:)roof of the pud- 
ding is in the eating," and if you don't believe us, try it. 

Persons who have never 'visited Parmachenee Lake, should 
read the "Young Moose Hunters," by C. A. Stephens. Although 
a juvenile work, it gives one an excellent idea of that section of 
the country, besides containing information useful to any person 
who intended making a trip to that locality. 




CHAPTER XVIII. 






AS A SUMMER RESORT. 




HE VILLAGE of Andover, Maine, although 
one of the loveliest in New England, is com- 
paritively unknown to the great mass of tour- 
ists and pleasure-seekers, who each year are 
looking for a desirable place in which to spend 
the summer. It is situated in Oxford County, 
*& twenty-one miles from Bryants Pond, a sta- 
tion on the Grand Trunk Railroad, with Avhich place it is connected 
by a first-class line of daily stages, owned by Messrs. Tuttle and 
Woodman, of Rumford. 

Its altitude, some 600 feet above the sea, is about the same as 
that of North Conway, N. II., to which place it bears a strong 
resemblance. Indeed, so near alike is the general appearance of 
the two places, that the traveler who is familiar with the land- 
scape of North Conway, will at once upon first visiting Andover, 
remark upon the strong likeness between the two villages. We 
present our readers with an engraving showing the village from a 
hill on the Lake Road on the east side of the Ellis River. 

Like North Conway, Andover is surrounded by mountain 
ranges, among which are some of the highest peaks of the state. 
But at Andover, one is more likely to be impressed with the 
mountain scenery than at North Conway, from the fact that the 

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mountains lie a little farther away, thus adding to the delicate 
beauty of their outline, and concealing in part that rugged grand- 
eur, which a nearer approach reveals. 

*' 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view," 
and the mountains are just far enough away to impress one favor- 
ably with their height and general appearance, while giving you 
a longing desire to become more intimately acquainted with their 
beauties. 

The Ellis River is to Andover, what the Saco is to North Con- 
way, and adds largely to the beauty of the landscape, as it flows 
through a charming intervale, twisting and turning, its clear and 
laughing waters flashing like silver in the sunlight, now dancing 
merrily through some broad meadow, and anon quietly creeping 
through some sequestered nook, until at length it is lost in the 
more turbid waters of the Androscoggin, into which stream it 
empties near the ferry at Ptumford. 

Andover is easily accessible from Boston, it being but twelve 
hours travel by rail and stage between the two places. The stage 
ride from Bryants Pond to Andover, is a pleasing experience 
long to be remembered, as the road, instead of being a succession 
of hills as in the White Mountain region, is level the entire dis- 
tance, and follows the valley of the Androscoggin and Ellis 
Rivers the whole way, presenting to the traveler some of the most 
charming views to be met with in New England. A daily mail 
from Andover to Boston, connects it with the outside world, and 
there is a telegraph station at Bryants Pond. There is talk of 
extending the telegraph line from Bryants Pond to Andover, 
and as this seems to be the only thing that the village is lacking 
in, it will probably be done another season. 

There is an excellent hotel in the village, known as the An- 
dover House, which is kept by Albert W. Thomas, a gentleman 
favorably known to those who have visited this section of the 
country, and who is one of the most pleasant and obliging of 
landlords. 

This house is admirably situated at the corner of the two main 
streets, and commands a beautiful prospect in every direction. 
Last season, the house was very much improved, a piazza added to 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 88 

the second story, from which one may obtain sunset views equal 
to, if not surpassing those to be seen from any part of the White 
Mountains, and a new ell is built which contains nine additional 
sleeping rooms, giving good accommodation to fifty or sixty guests. 

The table is well looked after by Mns. Hewey, a lady, whose 
long experience in the cuisene, enables her to provide for the inner 
man, in a way most acceptable to the tired and hungry traveler. 

The terms at this house are very reasonable, transient board, 
being $2.00 per day, and from $7 to $10 by the week. 

A good stable is connected with the house, where one can obtain 
teams at very reasonable prices. In this connection we must 
speak of the Buck Boards or Spring Boards, which are an insti- 
tution in this place, and which are the easiest and most comfortable 
teams for mountain riding, that the writer has ever met with. 
This vehicle is a universal favorite with the ladies, who after giv- 
ing it one trial, can scarcely be persuaded to ride in any thing 
else. 

There is an apothecary store, dry and fancy goods, and grocery 
stores in the place, also carriage and blacksmith shops. A cheese 
factory, several starch, grist and lumber mills, may also be men- 
tioned. The Andover Trotting Park was built two years ago, and 
several very fine races have been trotted there. It is situated 
near the main street, a short distance from the hotel, and has a 
half-mile track. 

The educational facilities, for such a place as this are unusually 
good, their being four school districts, with five schoolhouses, 
which are kept open for school, nine months in the year. 

There are two religious societies, both occupying comfortable 
churches, the Congregationalist and Methodist. 

A Town Hall, capable of seating three hundred people, is used 
for political meetings, and social entertainments. The churches, 
stores, post-ofiice and hall, are within a stone's throw of the hotel, 
making it very convenient for guests to visit them whether the 
weather be clear or stormy. 

Besides being a most delightful retreat, for a person to spend a 
vacation, or to linger through a summer, Andover is one of the 
most favorable places, for a person to stop, who is anyway afflict- 



84 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

ed with cata?i'rlial complaints. Its invigorating and health-giving 
air, is a sure and speedy cure for 

^o.$e (^M mi\ gay ^tux, 

and the ordinary catarrh yields readily to its influences. The 
writer is acquainted with several who visit this place every sum- 
mer, for the relief afforded them from the above complaints. 
There are many large groves of pine in the immediate vicinity of 
AxDOYER, and there are two within a few rods of the hotel, which 
are charming places to while away an hour or two on a pleasant 
svimmer afternoon with a Look for a companion ; or one may sit 
in fancy free, at the bottom of some large pine, and listen to the 
wind sighing through the topmost branches, far overhead, form- 
ing a music of its own, until yielding to its gentle influence you 
fall asleep, dreaming of wood nymphs and mountain sprites, and 
wake to find the shadows of the declining sun stealing down the 
mountain side, and a golden tint pervading all around, and won- 
dering to yourself how you could have slept so long, you start for 
the hotel no longer a dreamer, but awake to the realities of life — 
supper, being the one at that particular time which you think most 
about. 

In the number of its beautiful rides, Andover far surpasses 
many of the older summer resorts, and we think it can favorably 
compare with any other town in the mountains, for the number of 
its places of interest. Of these we shall now speak, commencing 
with those nearest the Andover House. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



PLEASANT DRIVES. 



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E DOUBT if in New England there is a 
more beautiful expanse of water, than this 
lovely pond. It is situated in the town of 
Roxbury, five miles distant from the An- 
DOVER House, on the road leading to Mex- 
ico and Dixfield, on the east side of the 
Ellis River. It is a mile and a half long, 
by a mile wide, and contains two islands, 
the largest of which is about four acres in extent, and is known as 
I. C, Island. Mr. John A. French of Andover, has built a small 
summer house on the island, for the entertainment of visitors, and 
placed several boats on the pond which may be hired at low 
prices. About a third of the shore around the pond consists of 
a splendid beach of hard and white sand, furnishing fine facilities 
for bathing. The pond is noted for its pickerel fishing, and some 
of the largest specimens of this fish we have ever seen, have been 
caught in its waters. This season Mr. French intends to stock it 
with black bass, which will add to its value with those fond of 
fishing. In several parts of it, water lillies grow luxuriantly. 
The pond is surrounded by high wooded hills, with farms on the 
cleared slopes, and is as pretty a sheet of water as one would wish 
to see. Half a day is sufficient in which to visit the pond, al- 

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thougli we are confident that you will not be contented with one 
drive in that direction. 

BLACK BROOK NOTCH 

is on the lake road nine miles from the Andoter House, and four 
from Smith's Mill. Here the Sawyer ]\Iountain and Blue 
Mountain meet, leaving a passage just wide enough between their 
granite sides for one team to pass through. It is a wild-looking 
place, and numerous slides that have occui-red here, show how the 
rugged mountain has succumbed to the action of the frost king. 
To add to the desolation of the place, a fire run through here two 
years ago, leaving the bleached rocks bare, and the blackened 
trunks of the trees standing like statues in armor in some desert- 
ed castle. Many of the trees have fallen, and lay pitei in all 
shapes and directions, forming an almost impassible barrier to any 
one attempting to leave the road. Through this deep mountain 
gorge, the waters of Black Brook roar and tumble, for miles be- 
yond. Across the brook at this place, a sluice dam has been built, 
to hold back the water in spring so that logs may be run down the 
stream. Up and down the brook for several miles in this vicinity, 
the trout-fishing is excellent, a catch of five hundred, not being 
considered an unusual days' work. 

WHITE CAP. 

This mountain is one of the prominent features of the landscape 
about Andover, and is seven miles south-east from the Andover 
House. There is a good carriage road to within a mile of the 
top, and its summit afi"ords some excellent views of the surround- 
ing country. Portland is visible from it on a fair day, there being 
no high hills intervening to obstruct the view. It is largely re- 
sorted to in the fall by people living in the vicinity, to gather 
blueberries, which fruit grows in astonishing quantities on its 
bare, round summit. 

FARMER'S HILL, 

another sightly elevation, lies north-east from the Andover House, 
a distance of four miles. The road runs through a pleasant farm- 



FREDERICK D. GRAVES' 




I Ivdl IP K/O"^ E ID 




The object of this indention is to improve the construction and operation of 
the class of rowlocks in such manner, as first, to insure the proper inclina- 
tion of the blarle of the oar, and prevent the liability of its catching the 
water when feathering in recovering, as well as to insure the proper 
position of the blade of the oar ■«iieu making the stroke ; secondly, to enable 
the outer end of tlie oar to be raist^d when it is being feathered, in order to 
prevent its contact with the water in rough weather. My IMPROVED 
ROWLOCK, which is composed of an inclosing ring located on a pintle, and an 
inner ring inclosed by the ring and adapted to be partially rotated therein; the 
inside of the inclosing ring is pruvided with a groove which extends almost 
around it, its continuity being broken only by a stop. Th« pintle of the row- 
lock is inserted in a socket attached to the gunwale of the boat, the pintle and 
rowlock being adapted to turn freely in the socket. From the foregoing it will 
readily be seen that an oar pivoted in the inner ring is adapted to be partially 
rotated, in addition to its oscillating movements, so that when its stroke is com- 
pleted it can be turned, bo as to feather the blade in the recover stroke. 
The stop and shoulders of the inner ring are arranged in such mutual relation 
that the shoulder abuts against the stop, in feathering the oar, before the blade 
becomes horizontal in cross-section, so that the cross-section of the oar is neces- 
sarily inclined downward from its forward to its rear edge from engaging with 
the water and overturning the rower, or in other words, causing him to 
»' Catch a Crab." 

>8®*This limitation of the oar in its rotation prevents awkward accidents in 
feathering, and enables an unskilled person to row with a considerable degree of 
certainty ."^j8L 
Rowlocks per set, $5.00. F. D. GRAVES. 13 Dexter St., So. Boston. 

Persons visiting the Richardson or Rangeley Lakes this summer, who would 
like to examine the ADIRONDACK BOAT, will find one with the steamer cu the 
Richardson Lakes, It can be examined at either of the steamer landings. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 87 

ing country, and the view to be obtained from its top, is thought 
by some to be equal to that from White Cap. The whole valley 
of the Ellis River, and the village of Andoveb lies spread out 
like a map to the sovith, forming a pleasing landscape for the eye 
to linger on. The excursion may be easily made in half a day. 

SAWYER'S NOTCH, 

Is another gap in the mountains, similar in character to " Black 
Brook Notch," although perhaps not so well worth a visit as the 
latter place. Still the scenery here is far from being tame, and 
the Sawyer Brook, which runs through the gorge is an excellent 
place for trout, and is annually resorted to by fishermen who 
have become acquainted with its merits. It is six miles from 
the Andover House, over a good road, and can be easily visited 
in the forenoon or afternoon. 



CHAPTER XX. 

WATERFALLS AND CASCADES. 




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VERY pleasant ride is the " DRIVE AROUND 
THE SQUARE," a distance of about eight 
miles. Leaving the hotel, you drive down the stage 
road, which is the principal street in the village, 
^3^ and some eighty feet wide, to South Axdoyer ; and 
turning to the left, you cross the Ellis River, by a 
covered bridge, obtaining a magnificent view of the 
broad meadows, which stretch north for several miles, and again 
turning to the left, follow the Ellis up, driving as far as the cov- 
ered bridge, at the "Corner," where you again cross the river, 
and return to the hotel. 

Between eight and ten in the morning, while the early freshness 
of the day is upon the hills and valleys, or after four in the after- 
noon, when the sun is beginning slowly to decline, and the shad- 
ows to fall softly on the mountains, is by far the prettiest time to 
take this drive. 

Five miles from the Andover House, on the lake road, are The 
Devil's Den, Hermit Falls, and Silver Ripple Cascade, 
which we have given a full description of in the " Middle Route ;" 
it is therefore unnecessary to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that 
there is no more beautiful excursion to be made in the vicinity of 

Andover than this, and an entire day should be devoted to it, 

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which can easily be done by making a picnic dinnei* one of the 
features of the excursion. 
AVe will now speak of 

THE CATARACTS, 

a most charming series of falls and cascades, whose beauties can- 
not be too highly praised. They are situated on Frye's Brook, 
or the Cataract Brook, as it is sometimes called, about five miles 
from the Andover House. The road follows Old Maid Brook, for 
most of the way, and runs through woods that furnish a most 
agreeable shade from the hot rays of the sun. The ride is not 
surpassed by any in the vicinity of Andover, and is a favorite one 
with all visitors to the place. 

Turning from the road we enter a clearing where the team is 
left, and a lovely walk of half a mile up the mountain side, which 
is covered with a varied growth of hard and soft wood, brings you 
to the first or 

LOWER FALL 

This partakes somewhat of the character of "Artist's Fall" at 
North Conway, but is far prettier. The volume of water at any 
season of the year is also larger. The water flows over a dark 
clifi", and the sides of the brook being semi-circular in shape, fur- 
nish the visitor with a good view from any direction, 
A few rods above is the 

UPPER FALL, 

an engraving of which, we present to our readers. The %'atcr 
here comes down in two falls, the whole height being about sixty 
feet. The entire bed of the stream where the water makes its 
first leap is solid rock, and at the bottom of the first half of the 
fall is a round basin in the rock of unfathomable depth, accord- 
ing to local tradition. The water and frost have played sad havoc 
with the granite walls of the stream at this place, and immense 
bowlders have fallen off from the upper part of the cliff, and lie 
in the stream at the base of the second fall. 

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indescribable charm, that will cause one to linger as if unable to 
tear themselves away from its beautiful scenery. It would fur- 
nish a fitting abode for a sylyan goddess, and we can almost im- 
agine some Diana to appear and welcome us. 

Leaving this sequestered retreat, we follow the stream up the 
mountain side for half a mile further, the bare and scared summit 
of Old Bald Pate, frowning down upon us, as if questioning 
our right to invade his domain, and reach one of the most lovely 
places, to be found on this most beautiful stream. Here the 
mountain torrent pours over the whitest of granite rock, worn 
smooth as glass from the action of the water, forming a series of 
delightful cascades, known as the 

SYLVAN CASCADES. 

Here the sunlight streams in, causing the water to sparkle like 
diamonds, and furnishing a strong comparison to the darkness of 
The Flume above. There are basins worn in the solid rock here, 
that for beauty of form and depth would put to shame any work 
of ai't. One can set here for hours feasting their eyes on the ex- 
quisite beauties of the place, their ears enchanted by the gentle 
murmur of the rippling waters. 

If one is inclined to solitude, no more beautiful spot could be 
found in which to indulge in pensive mood, for here you are en- 
tirely surrounded by nature. The murmuring stream, the gran- 
ite rocks, the dark forest, lit up a little by the delicate birch and 
silver maple, below the valley to which the torrent hastens, above 
the frowning peaks of mountains, and over all the clear blue 
sky ^majestic canopy of earth. 

Less than an eighth of a mile above, is quite a wonder of na- 
ture, known as 

THE FLUME. 

Here for several hundred feet on both sides of the brook the 
rock rises to a height of from twenty to sixty feet, the stream 
flowing along the bottom. A tree has been felled so as to fall 
across the chasm, affording an insecure bridge by which to cross. 
The width varies from ten to twenty feet. A thick growth of fir 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 91 



and pine have obtained a foothold on each side of the cliflf, shut- 
ting out the sun except perhaps for a few moments at noon, when 
it is directly overhead. The darkness adds to the solemn appear- 
ance of the place, and you gaze with feelings of awe along the 
cavernous sides of the frightful looking ravine before you, 

" Through the narrow rift 
Of the vast rocks, against whose rugged feet 
Beats the mad torrent with perpetual roar, 
Where noonday is as twilight, and the M'inda 
Come burdened with the everlasting moan, 
Of forests and of far-off water-falls." 

We present our readers with a capital engraving of the Flume 
on the following page. 

One day last summer, (1875) the writer with another gentleman 
from Boston, followed this stream nearly to its source, and the 
places mentioned in this book are only a few of the many that 
arc to be found along its banks. It is in fact, the finest mountain 
stream we have ever seen, and we have visited a large number. 
Your interest is enhanced, and new beauties are unfolded at every 
yard of your advance, and an entire day may be most profitably 
and agreeably spent, in exploring its hidden mysteries. Any lady 
who is a good mountain climber, can visit all the special places of 
interest on this stream in one day, if pressed for time, but of 
course more pleasure could be derived from a slower examination. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

BALD PATE MOUNTAIN. 
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I HIS lofty peak is one of several mountains that lie 
west of tlie Hotel, and is reached from the same 
place as the "Cataracts." From the Andoveii 
[ousE to the summit it is nine miles, of which five can 
done in a team. Leaving the road at the Cataract 
path, you commence the ascent of the mountain, the 
'X"^ base being thickly covered with woods. A "blazed" 
path leads to the top. For the last three-quarters of a mile, the 
mountain is bare of trees, but is covered until within a few hun- 
dred yards of the top, with mountain cranberries. The singular 
bleak and bare appearance of the top of this mountain is no doubt 
what suggested its name. Near the northern end there is a crev- 
ice running nearly across the mountain, from one to four feet 
wide, and from ten to fifty feet deep. The summit commands a 
fine view in every direction, and on a fair day many of the lakes 
are plainly to be seen. This is the fourth highest mountain in 
Maine, and cannot be far from three thousand feet above the sea 
level. Like Mount Washington, it is frequently enveloped in 
clouds, and snow remains on it some seasons until late in July. 
It is a hard mountain to climb, but once on top, the prospect 
amply repays you for your labor in reaching it. It is advisable to 
take a guide when visiting it, as it is an uncomfortable place to 
get lost in. It will take about two hours to make the ascent, and 
one will need the better part of the day to visit it easily. 

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Last summer, the writer, accompanied by a gentleman from 
Bridgeton, Me., made the ascent under unfavorable circumstances. 
Learning at the hotel that there was a very fine view to be obtain- 
ed from its summit, we started one day after dinner to climb Old 
Bald Pate. AVe reached the clearing, at the base of the moun- 
tain about two o'clock, and after fastening our horse started up. 
Taking the cataract path, we went up for nearly a mile without 
difficulty. Here the path ended, and we began to look for the 
blazed trees. Not finding them we continued on, traveling by the 
sun. After an hour of weary climbing we had reached the sum- 
mit of the mountain we were on, and found we had lost our way. 
My companion climbed a tree, to learn our position, and upon de- 
scending, said that Bald Pate lay a mile or more to the left of 
us. So we tramped on, down the back side of the mountain that 
we were then on, and finally saw Bald Pate towering a mile or 
two above and beyond us. Taking a careful look around to get 
the lay of the land, we started up again. The woods were thick 
and the underbrush troublesome, but we persevered, and finally 
worked our way up and through the lower belt ofmiovQsi, and 
came out amid a growth of scrub trees and bushes, with dead 
cedars and pines, killed by some forest fire, strewn about us in a 
perfect tangle. The hard old granite face of Bald Pate was now 
clearly in sight of us, but still a long way ofi". We were tired and 
thirsty, but we had left the hotel contrary to the wishes of our 
friends without a guide, intending to stand upon the top of old 
Bald Pate, without any help, and we meant to do it. So up- 
wards we struggled. It was with a feeling of thanksgiving that 
we cleared the fallen trees, and stepped out on the barren rocks, 
where if locomotion was still difficult, we were not compelled to 
climb or jump over a prostrate tree every three or four feet. A 
strong wind was blowing across the mountain, which felt very re- 
freshing to our heated faces, but it cooled our bodies so rapidly 
that we were soon glad to put on our overcoats. We were now 
really suffering from thirst, and upon reaching the extreme sum- 
mit we were overjoyed to find cool, clear water in the hollows of 
the ledge, which at that moment appeared like nectar to us. Lay- 
ing flat upon the granite ledge, we drank and drank, until at last 



04 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

our thirst was satisfied. Not until then, did we begin to feast our 
eyes upon the glorious view which lay spread out before us in 
every direction. To the north-west lay Umbagog and the Dix- 
TiLLE Peaks. Farther ea^t the Richardson Lakes and the 
Great Lake were plainly discernible, their watei'S shining like 
gold in the last rays of the setting sun. The Ellis Valley and 
the village of Andover formed a beautiful picture in the east and 
south-east, and south-west rose, the peaks of Grafton and Bear 
IviVER Notch, hiding the fair village of Bethel from our view. 
From the highest point of the mountain we counted nearly a hun- 
dred other peaks surrounding us in different directions. On the 
extreme height of the summit we found a monument of stones, 
built by those who had made the ascent before us, and we added a 
few to the pile. The clouds had now began to envelop the moun- 
tain, and the chillness of the air had increased to such an extent 
as to be disagreeable, even with our overcoats on. It was seven 
o'clock and high time we should be moving. So we started down, 
and as soon as we had reached the belt of timber, began to look 
for the blazed path. We were fortunate enough to find it. A 
little way down we stopped at an immense spring, which is quite 
a curiosity in itself, and had a drink of its cool and sprakling 
waters. We had been told of this spring at the hotel, but had not 
found it on our way vip. Our thirst satisfied, we continued on 
down the mountain, following the path until it became so dark we 
could not see the mai-ks on the trees, and then we went at ran- 
dom. Becoming alarmed, lest we should get too far out of our 
way, we struck for Cataract Brook, knowing in which direction 
it lay, and soon reached it. Following the bed of the stream we 
made better progress, because the rocks had been washed white 
by the freshets and we could see where to step, lleaching the 
Upper Cataract Fall, we were compelled to take to the woods 
again. And now the trouble commenced, for by this time it had 
grown so dark that you could not see your hand before you, and 
the trees grew so thick together that we could not see the sky. 
Guided by the sound of the brook, we worked our way along, 
groping and stumbling, now uttering an exclamation of disgust, 
and then laughing heartily as the ludicrousness of the situation 



RANGELEY AND EICIIAEDSOX LAKES. 95 

forced itself upon us. Finally in climbing over a tree, I disturbed 
a wasp's nest, and for a moment after I felt as if somebody was 
using me for a pincushion. We moved away from that particular 
spot in a hurry, although at the immenent risk of breaking our 
necks as we tumbled over stumps, loose rocks, and fallen trees, 
and when we had reached a safe distance, we sat down for a few 
minutes' rest and consultation. We knew that we were within a 
quarter of a mile of the road, and vei*y near the cataract path, 
and that once found, a few moments' walk would place us beside 
our team ; but to find the path was the difficulty, in the profound 
darkness by which we were enveloped. Striking a match we 
started a fire, and had just got it well blazing, when we heard a 
team in the road. A few moments later, we were joined by two 
men with lanterns, who had been sent out as a rescuing party by 
our anxious friends, from the hotel. By the aid of the lantern 
we descended to the road in a few minutes, and reached the hotel 
at about eleven o'clock. We had been seven hours in making the 
ascent and descent of the mountain, but my companion agreed 
with me iu thinking that we could do better another time. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



EXCURSIONS 



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MOXG other beautiful excursions in tlie vicin- 
ity of Andover, perhaps there is none from 
which one will derive a greater amount of pleasure, 
than a visit to this wonderful work of nature. It is 
situated seven miles from the Andover House, on 
the road to Upton. 

Leaving the carriage road, a walk of three-quarters 
of a mile, brings you to these walls of solid rock, so grand and 
impressive. The mountains here come together at a height of 
about 1500 feet above the sea, leaving a passage scarcely ten feet 
wide between them. 

The path to the Notch lays across a meadow, where grow in ex- 
haustless numbers the most delicious wild strawberries. Then 
crossing the w^est branch of the Ellis which rises in the hills 
above, you continue on through a dense forest, that furnishes a 
grateful shade, and climb slowly up the mountain side. The path 
you follow, was formerly a stage road, which by passing through 
the Notch cut oflF several miles of the distance between Andover 
and Upton. For several years, however, it has not been used, 
owing to a bad wash-out, that carried a part of the road into a 
deep ravine ; this occurred near the Notch, and the damage was 
so great that it was thought inexpedient to repair it, on account 
of the expense and another road was accordingly built around it. 
The road has become somewhat overgrown with underbrush, but 

through this you can easily pick your way. The ascent is steep, 

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RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 97 



and you will be glad to rest occasionally before reaching the top. 
There has been some talk lately of having the County Commis- 
sioners lay out the road again, the state to make an appropriation 
of one thousand dollars to put it in repair. 

As you climb up the side of the mountain there are occasional 
openings from which you can get views of the further side of the 
gorge, and of the picturesque stream which sings noisely far be- 
low you. On reaching the top, the awful grandeur of the scene 
is at once apparent. Two large walls of rocks rising to a height 
of more than a thousand feet, their sides rugged and scarred from 
long battle with the storm king's forces. One immense mass of 
ledge, at the very head of the Notch, towers like a huge pinnacle 
far above all others. To the summit of this the adventuresome tour- 
ist may clamber, not however without some little risk to his neck, 
and seated on the top command a magnificent view extending down 
through the Notch for miles. The wild and weird character of 
the place is more forcibly brought to your mind here than from 
any other point, and this view alone will amply recompense you 
for the toil and time in visiting this charming spot. To gain a 
proper idea of the height, however, one should descend into the 
ravine, and gaze up at the huge bowlder which towers so far 
above. The stream, too, is seen falling like a silver thread, and 
flashing in the sunlight, now making a leap of several feet, and 
then flowing swiftly over the face of the rock, until it reaches the 
bottom of the ravine, through which it flows, emptying into the 
Ellis some miles below. A whole day should be taken for this 
excursion, as one needs at least four hours at the Notch. 

FIRST B HILL, UPTON. 

This sightly eminence is distant from the Andover House about 
ten miles. It is a very pleasant excursion, and can easily be 
made in a day. The route lies over the same road as to Dunn's 
Notch, but after reaching the point where you diverge to visit 
the Notch, the road rapidly rises, and you have a long tiresome 
climb up the side of a hill, that so far as height is concerned 
might well be called a mountain, passing through a piece of wood- 
land, which in the fall is an excellent place for partridges. 



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The road is so narrow, that the trees meet in many places, 
effectually protecting you from Old Sol's fiery glances. This 
is the most hilly of any of the drives in the vicinity of An- 
DOVER, but the road is good, and the " buck-board " makes easy 
traveling. Arriving at the top of the hill, which is over two 
thousand feet above the sea, you have a view fully as fine as may 
be obtained from many mountains. 

North and north-east are to be seen Umbagog and Richardson 
Lakes, to the south Old Bald Pate rears his frosty head, and in 
the west may be seen several of the White Mountain peaks. Mount 
Washington, whose lofty summit kisses the clouds, and looks down 
upon the others. With a fair opera or field glass, one is easily 
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CHAPTER XXIII. 

EXCURSIONS 




ERSONS fond of natural scenery will find this 
one of the most enjoyable excursions that can 
be made from the Andover House, and it will 
occupy from a day and a half to two days. Start 
some fine day the first thing after dinner, accompanied 
by a few friends and drive to Upton, a distance of sev- 
enteen miles, and put up for the night at the Lake or 
Umbagog Houses. 
The next morning leaving the teams and driver to await your 
return, and accompanied by a well-filled lunch basket, don't forget 
that if you wish to keep good-natured, take the steamer Diamond, 
and make the round trip of the lake and rivers, a distance of some 
forty-four miles. The course lays down the Cambridge River 
and across the Lake to the Inlet, thence across the lake and down 
the Androscoggin River to Errol Dam Landing, where a stop is 
made long enough for you to inspect the Dam, which is worth a 
visit ; thence retrace the route three miles towards the lake and 
enter the Magalloway River up which serpentine stream you 
sail for eight miles, stopping at the boat landing, from the vicin- 
ity of which you will obtain many fine views of the surrounding 
country. 

The steamer stops here two hours, and you have ample time for 

a lunch in the cabin, and a stroll on shore before the whistle 

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100 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

sounds the return. Or you may visit the Berlin Mills House two 
miles distant, and obtain a good dinner for fifty cents. A team 
will take you to and from the boat free of expense. 

At two o'clock you start "down the river," and reaching the 
Androscoggin, again visit the Errol Landing, thence retrace your 
course, crossing the lake to the Inlet; from there you are " home- 
ward bound," and once more crossing the lake, and winding along 
the crooked channel of the Cambridge River, you reach Upton, 
and the hotels about six o'clock. If you have taken the precau- 
tion to order supper to be ready on the arrival of the boat, you 
can at once satisfy the demands of hunger, and starting immedi- 
ately after supper, you will reach the Andover House about half- 
past ten o'clock that night. If there is a moon, nothing can be 
more lovely than this evening ride from Upton to Andover. Or 
you can stop over night at the hotels on the shore of the lake, and 
return to the Andover House, the next morning after breakfast. 

On all excursions, where you are liable to be out after dark, 
proper care should be taken to dress warm, as the night air among 
the mountains is cool and sharp. Plenty of shawls and water- 
proofs for the ladies, and overcoats and blankets for the gentlemen 
are never amiss. 

The above trip is a most enjoyable one, and is not so very ex- 
pensive, and \he larger the number, the less the expense to each. 
The fare on the steamer will be $2.00 each. 

DIXVILLE NOTCH. 

To those who have never visited Dixville Notch, a trip to this 
wild and romantic region, is a pleasure long to be thought of. It 
is easily reached from the Andover House, and the trip can be 
readily made in two days, although three is preferable. The 
writer and a party of friends made the trip from Andover last 
summer, (1875) occupying two days, and were enabled to see all 
the objects of interest, although they did not spend as much time 
in the vicinity of the Notch as they would have liked. The dis- 
tance from the Andover House to the Dix House is thirty-five 
miles, just a pleasant day's ride, and not at all tiresome when 
done on a " buck-board." 



RANGE LEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 101 

Leaving tlie hotel at Andover early in the morning, you drive 
half of the distance, stopping for lunch by the side of the 
road in some cool place in the woods ; an hour or two can easily 
be spent in sampling the contents of your lunch-basket, a social 
chat, and cigars. By this time the horses will have been fed and 
rested, and you resume your seats, and ride the remaining dis- 
tance, reaching The Notch about seven o'clock. The next day 
can be spent in climbing Jacob's Ladder, and viewing the coun- 
try from Table Rock, visiting the Ice Cave, staring at the Pro- 
file, and going into ecstacies over the Flume and Cascades on the 
eastern side of the Notch — for you are sure to do it. If pisca- 
torially inclined, and you have had the forethought to bring your 
rod and book of flies, you may stroll a short distance from the 
hotel, and catch a gootl mess of trout for supper. 

For the entire distance between the two places the scenery is 
charming, and the ride delightful. The road is first-rate, with 
the exception of a short distance in the heart of the Notch, and 
that is not at all dangerous. Some very pretty views of the An- 
droscoggin River may be obtained at Errol, at which place you 
cross the stream by means of a covered bridge. For a more par- 
ticular description of the scenery about Dixyille Notch, we re- 
fer you to former chapters of the book. 

The Lake Umbagog and Dixville Notch trips may l5e combined 
in the following manner : 

Leave the Andover House early in the afternoon, and drive to 
the Lake or Umbagog Houses, which you reach 'in time for sup- 
per, and where you will stop over night. The next morning take 
the steamer Diamond, and enjoy the sail on the lake and rivers, 
touching at the places mentioned above, and leave the boat in the 
afternoon at Errol, stopping over night at Bragg' s Hotel, Have 
your teams drive during the day from Upton to Errol, and reach 
the latter place by night, and the next morning after breakfast 
drive to the Notch, which you will easily reach in time for dinner. 
You will then have a long half day in the vicinity, giving ample 
time to see all of interest, and the next morning start for the An- 
dover House, arriving there in the evening. 

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102 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

or five days, and the expense will be less than if they are made 
separately. 

RUMFORD FALLS. 

These celebrated falls, the highest in New England, are situated 
south-east from the Andover House. The road is excellent the 
whole distance, and the drive very pleasant. You are in sight of 
the Ellis or Androscoggin Rivers the most of the way, and the 
falls are six miles below the Rumford ferry. The full tide of the 
Androscoggin makes a descent at the falls of one hundred and 
sixty feet in three pitches, and within the space of a quarter of a 
mile. There is one sheer descent of seventy feet. In the spring 
when the logs are going down the river it is an inspiring sight to 
see them leap the falls. 

Still another way to reach these falls from the Andover House, 
is to cross the Ellis River, and drive over the road to Mexico, 
going through Roxbury Notch, a locality of no mean pretentions, 
and afterwards follow the road on the east side of the Androscog- 
gin until you reach the falls. The distance this way is but nine 
miles, and would be preferable to some on that account. Our idea 
of this drive is to go by the way of Roxbury Notch, and come 
back by the other road, thus giving greater variety to the excur- 
sion. • 

Ten miles from Rumford Falls is 

MOUNT ZIRCON, 

a very prominent peak, and one which is well worth visiting. 
Some of the finest views in New England may be seen from its 
summit. It can easily be visited in one day from the Andover 
House, returning the next day, and stopping at Rumfobd Falls 
on the way back. 




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CHAPTER XXIV. 



TROUT FISHING. 




OST OF the streams about Andover abound 
in trout. Among those which we call spe- 
cial attention to, having found from pi-actical 
experience that they are favorite resorts of 
the spotted beauties, are Black Brook, 
!f Sawyer's Brook, Old Maid Brook, Frye's 
Brook, and Burrough's Brook. Trout 
may be found in all these waters at any time during the year the 
fish averaging from one-fourth to two pounds in weight. 

These streams are all within easy walking or riding distance 
from the hotel, and are fished without difficulty, a pair of long- 
legged rubber boots, being the only requisite beside proper fish- 
ing tackle. 

We do not know of any greater pleasure than to start some fine 
morning from the hotel, and ride to one of these brooks. Leaving 
the team, and carrying your fishing tackle and lunch basket, you 
strike the stream, where the eddies curl around the roots of some 
old tree. Obtaining a good position, you make a cast, your fly 
strikes the water, dances for a moment on the surface of the 
swiftly flowing stream, and, presto ! you see a spotted beauty dart 
like a flash, and off he goes with your hook in his mouth. A few 
moments of anxious suspense, and he lays quivering in your bas- 
ket, doomed to the ignoble end of sizzling in a frying pan. Many 
more such scenes as this, and then a withdrawal" to some umbra- 
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tree, you go through your lunch basket, with appetite heightened 
by the morning's sport. Lighting a cigar, after every crumb of 
food has disappeared, you indulge in dolce far niente, and watch 
the clouds as they sail lazily through the sky, or build air castles 
in the smoke of your Havanna, as it curls gracefully above your 
head, and is wafted into dim distance by the sweet breath of the 
summer zephers. 

But lunch over, you again take to the brook, and after a repe- 
tition of the morning's sport, with your basket well filled with 
the sweetest of all fish, the spotted brook trout, you await by the 
side of the road, the return of the team to take you back to the 
hotel, where once arrived, you recount the incidents of the day to 
a crowd of sympathetic listeners. 

"Where, in many straggling group, 
Gnarled and crooked willows 
By a chaffing streamlet stoop, 
And their yellow branches droop, 
Tow'rd its tiny billows ; 
Near the banks are little whirls — 
Whirls of fretted water, 
And beneath those rings of pearl 
Trout delicious caught are ." 

But although trout are plenty in all these brooks, they are 
not always to be caught, for as one of the natives say, " dref- 
ful notional critturs traout be, olluz bitin' at whodger haant 
got. Orful contrary critturs — just like fimmels. Yer can cotch 
a fimmel with a feather, if she's ter be cotched, ef she haant ter be 
cotched, yer may scoop ther hul world dry an yer haant got her. 
Jess so traout." 

The trout fishing at the lakes, is of course more exciting than 
brook fishing. For instance at Smooth Ledge, you throw your fly 
on top of the white water, and have it seized by a four pounder, 
instead of a baby trout six inches long ; you strike hard, and the 
fish darts away, while fathom after fathom of your Hne unreels, 
and you begin to tremble for fear he will never stop ; he turns, 
and you begin to reel in, carefully and watchfully, keeping his 
head well up to the surface, and after many moments of exciting 
anxiety, you get him near enough to successfully use your net. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 105 

It is no small job, to take a four or five pound trout out of swift 
water, with a light rod, and not break your rod or loose your line. 
It requires skill, patience and practice to do it, but isn't it sport ? 
How your eyes sparkle, your cheeks flush, and how you quiver with 
the excitement of the moment, while battling with one of these 
five pounders ; and what a look of disgust quickly steals across 
your face, if, after all of your best efforts, you loose your fish. 
Certainly it is provoking. 




CHAPTER XXV. 



An Act to amend Chapter 30 of the revised statutes, relating to game. 
J3e it enacted, etc., as follows : 

§ 1. No person sliall kill or have in his possession, except alive, or expose 
for sale, any woodduck, woodcock, or ICuglish snipe, commonly so called, Le- 
twet'U tlie 1st day of January and the ith day of July following, or kill any 
quail, grouse, or partridge between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of 
September following, or have the same in possession, or expose the same for 
sale, except alive, between the Ist day of February and the 1st day of Septem- 
ber following, under a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $10 for each 
bird so killed or had in possession or exposed for sale. 

§ 2. No person shall at any time, or in any place within this State, with any 
trap, net, snare, device or contrivance, other than the usual method of sporting 
with firearms, take any wild duck of any variety, quail, partridge, grouse, or 
woodcock, under a penalty of $5 for each bird so taken. 

g S. No person shall kill or have in his possession, except alive, any of the 
birds commonly known as larks, robbins, swallows, sparrows, or orioles, be- 
tween the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September following, under 
a penalty of $5 for each bird so killed or had in possession. This section shall 
not apply to any person who shall kill on his own premises any robin during 
the period when summer fruits are ripening. 

§ 4. No person shall at any time maliciously take or destroy the nest, eggs, 
or unfledged young of anj* wild bird of any kind, excepting crows, hawks and 
owls, or take any eggs or young from such nest, except for the purpose of pre- 
serving the same as a specimen, or of rearing said young alive, under a penalty 
of not less than $1 nor more than $10 for each nest, egg, or young so taken or 
destroyed. 

g 5. Allpenaltiesimposedunder the provisions of this act,may be recovered, 
with costs of suit, by any person or persons, in his or their own name, before 
any municipal or police court, or trial justice, in the county where the oflense 
is committed, or the defendant resides, or such penalties may bo recovered by 
an action in the superior court of the county of Cumberland, or in the su- 
preme court of this State, which actions shall be governed by the same rules 
as other actions in said courts, except that upon a recovery by the plaintiff or 
plaintiffs, in such suit in said courts, full costs shall be allowed to such plain- 
tiff or plaintitTs without regard to the amount of such recovery ; and any judge 
of the supreme court, superior court of Cumberland county, or of any jiolico 
or municipal court, and any trial justice is authorized, upon receiving suflti- 
cient security for costs on the part of the complainant, and sufficient proof by 
affidavit of the violation of any of the pnivisions of this act by any person 
being temporarily within his jurisdiction, but not residing therein, or by any 
person whose name and residence are unknown to the complainant, to issue 
his warrant and have such offender committed or held to bail to answer the 
charge against him. Any penalties when collected, shall be paid by the court 
before which conviction shall be had, one-half to the overseers of the poor, for 
the use of the poor of the city or town in which the conviction is had, and the 
remainder to the prosecutor. On the non-payment of the penaltj', the defen- 
dant shall be committed to the common jail of the county for a period of not 
less than five days, and at a rate of one day for each dollar of the amount of 
the judgment, where the sum is over $5 in amount; and it shall be the duty of 



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any county attorney in this State, and he is hereby required to commence ac- 
tions for the recovery of the penalties allowed and imposed in this act, upon 
receiving proper information; and in all actions brought by such county at- 
torney, one-half of the penalties recovered and collected shall be paid to the 
person giving information on which the action is brought, and the other half 
to the overseers of the poor for the use of the poor of the city or town in which 
couviction is had ; this clause, however, not to preclude any person from bring- 
ing suit to recover or enforce any of the penalties named in this act M-ithout 
the aid or intervention of any county attorney. 

§ 6. This act shall not apply to any person who shall kill any bird or take 
any egg for the purpose of having the same set up as a specimen. 

^7. Sections 16, 17, and 18 of chapter 30 of the revised statutes of 1871, 
and chapter 90 of the public laws of 1873, are hereby repealed. 

[Approved March 3, 1874.] 



MOOSE, DEER, AND CARIBOU. 

No person shall hunt or kill with dogs any moose, deer, or caribou on any 
lands in this State under a penalty of $40 for every such moose, deer, or cari- 
bou, so killed; and no person shall between the 1st day of January and the 
1st day of October, in any manner, hunt or kill any moose, deer, or caribou 
under the same penalties as above provided ; any person may lawfully shoot or 
kill any dog fonnd hunting moose, deer, or caribou — [As amended by chapter 
103, laws of 1873. 

Sections 10 to 12 inclusive relate to the appointment of moose wardens, and 
defines their duties. 

§ 13. If any person has in his possession the carcass or hide of any such an- 
imal betweeu the 1st day of February and the 1st day of October he shall be 
deemed to have hunted and killed the same contrary to law, and be liable to 
the penalties aforesaid, but he shall not be precluded from producing proof in 
defence. In case of his conviction, such carcass or hide found in his possess- 
ion shall be decreed by the court forfeited to the use of the person prosecuting. 

FUR-BEARING ANIMALS. 
g 15. No person shall in any way destroy, between the Ist day of June and 
the 15th day of October of each year, any mink, beaver, sable, otter, fisher, or 
muskrat, under a penalty of $10 fur each animal so destroyed, to be recovered 
on complaint; one-half thereof to the use of the county where the offense is 
committed, and half to the prosecutor. — Chapter 30, revised statues of 1871. 



PROTECTION OF FISH. 

[Sections 1 to 18 inclusive relate exclusively to the packing of salt fish and 
the duties of inspectors thereof, and sections 19 to 35 inclusive to the duties of 
the fishery commissioners and the netting of fish.] 

§ 36. No salmon, shad, or alewives, or other migratory fish shall be taken 
within 200 yards of any fish-way, or within 100 yards of any dam or mill-race, 
nor shall any structure or any implement except hook and line be used for 
taking any fish within the above limit, between the 1st day of April and the 
1st day of November, without the written permission of the wardens of the 
district in which it is situated, approved by the commissioners of fisheries ; 
nor shall hook and line be used within fifty yards of any fish-way. The pen- 
alty for the violation of this section shall be a fine of not more than $50 nor 
less than $10 for each offense, and a further fine of $10 for each salmon, $1 for 
each shad, and 20 cents for eachalewive, or other fish so taken. 

§ 37. There shall be a closetime for salmon from the 1st day of September 
of each year, to the 1st day of April following, during which no salmon shall 
be taken or killed in any manner, under a penalty of not more than $50 nor 
less than $10 for each salmon so taken or killed. 

§ 38. There shall be a yearly close time for landlocked salmon, trout and 



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togue, during tlie months of October, November, December and January, 
during which none of the fish shall be taken or killed in any manner, under 
a penalty of not more than $30 nor less than $10, and a further fine of $1 for 
each fish so taken or killed ; but this section sliall not apply to the taking of 
blue back trout in Franklin and Oxford counties, nor to any person taking 
fish on his own premises for the purpose of cultivation. 

§39. Any person who shall have in his possession any fish taken in yiola- 
tion of the two preceeding sections, shall be punished by a like penalty as if 
he had taken them; and any person having in possession any fresh salmon 
between the 5th day ot September of any year and the 1st day of April fol- 
lowing, or any fresh landlocked salmon, trout, or togue, between the 5th day 
of October of any year and the 1st day of February following, shall be deemed 
guilty of a violation of this section, and shall be held to prove that they were 
not taken unlawfully. 

g 40. No weir, hedge, trap-trawl, or any other than a dip-net shall be used 
for the capture of any fresh water fish, under a penalty of not more than $50 
nor less than $10, and a further penalty of $1 for every fish so taken. 

§ 41, No mascalongo, pickerel, pike, sun-fish, or bream, yellow perch, or 
black bass shall be introduced, by means of the live spawn, to any waters 
where they do not now severally exist, except as hereinafter provided under 
a penalty of not more than $L'0O nor le^s than $50. 

\ 42. Thocommissiouer of fisheries may take fish of any kind at such time 
and place and in such manner as he may clioose, for the purposes of science 
and cultivation and disseminatiun; and he may grant permits to other per- 
sons to take fish for the same purposes, and may introduce or cause or permit 
to be introduced any kind of fish to any waters he may see fit. 

§ 43. The commissioner of fisheries may set apart any waters for the pur- 
pose of cultivation of fish; and after three weeks' notice, published in the 
paper nearest the locality where such waters are set apart, no person shall 
take or kill any fish therein under a penalty of not more than $100 nor less 
than $10, and a further penalty of $2 for each fish so taken or killed. 

g 44. All boats, implements and materials used in violation of this chapter, 
and all fish taken shall be forfeited. 

§ 45. All fines and forfeitures jirovided for herein, may be recovered before 
any competent tribunal by complaint, indictment, or action of debt. One- 
lialf of all fines and forfeitures recovered shall be for the benefit of the person 
prosecuting therefor. 

§ 46. It shall be the duty of constables and police officers to prosecute for 
all offences against this chapter that come to their knowledge. 

§ 47. Any fish-warden, constable, or police officer may seize and destroy any 
implement used in illegal fishing. ****** 

§ 52. Any person legally engaged in the artificial culture and maintenance 
of fishes, may take them in his own waters as and when ho pleases, and may 
at all times sell them lor these purposes. 

§ 53. Whoever fishes in that portion of a pond, stre^.ra, or other water in 
which fishes are lawfully artificially cultivated or maintained as aforesaid, 
without the permission of tlie proprietor, shall forfeit not more than $50 nor 
i(;ss than $10, and $1 for every fish so taken ; and in default of payment there- 
of shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which the offense is 
committed, at the expense of the prosecutor, until said forfeiture is paid or 
otherwise discharged by due process of law. [As amended, chap. 170, laws 

****** * 

I 55. Any person who shall cast or deposit, or cause to be thrown or depos- 
ited into any of the navigable waters of this State, any pumice, scraps, or 
other offal arising from the making of oil or slivers for bait, from menha- 
den or herring shall pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 for 

p o f> li Q "fifi Ti S 6 

g 56. All penalties and forfeitures named in the two preceding sections may 
bo recovered by indictment or action of debt in the name and to the use of 
the county in which the offense was committed ; and there shall be a lien on 



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all boats, vessels, crafts, and apparatus of any kind in the possession of any 
persons violating any of the provisions of the preceding sections, whether 
owned by them or not. 

§ 57. Whoever shall take any black bass during the months of April, May 
and June, or at any time from their spawning beds, shall forfeit for each of- 
fense not more than $20 nor less than $5, and a further penalty of $1 for each 
black bass so taken. 

g 58. No smelts shall be taken or fished for in any other manner than by 
hook and line, or dip-net, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of 
October in any year, under a penalty of not more than $50 nor less than $10 
for each offense. — [As amended by chapter 248. Approved March 3, 1874. 

§ 59. No net other than a dip-net, the meshes of which are smaller than one 
inch square in the clear, shall be ufed in any waters frequented by migratory 
fishes, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of October in any year, 
under a penalty of not more than $20 nor less than $10 for each offense. — 
[As amended by act of March 3, 1874. 

PROTECTION OF MOOSE. 

§ 1. No person shall, before the 1st day of October, 1880, take, kill or de- 
stroy any moose in this State. Any person violating the provisions of this 
section shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars for every moose so taken, 
killed, or destroyed. Any person who in any way aids or assists in the com- 
mission of the aforesaid crime shall be liable to the same penalty as the 
principal. 

§ 2. Any person who shall, before the 1st day of October, 1880, have in his 
possession, keep or sell any moose meat or moose hide, shall be liable to the 
penalty provided in section first, unless said meat or hides shall have been in 
his possession at the time this act takes effect. 

§ 3. The penalties under this act may be recovered by indictment or action 
of debt, in any county where said offense may have been committed, or where 
such moose, moose meat or moose hide may be fviund, one half for the benefit 
of the prosecutor, and the other half to the county in which said indictment 
or action may be commenced. — Act of Feb. 16, 1875. 

DEER ON MT. DESERT ISLAND. 

No person, except during the months of November and December, shall in 
any manner, hunt or kill any deer on the island of Mt. Desert, imder the 
same penalties as are pi'ovided in section 9 of chapter 30 of the revised stat- 
utes.— Act of Feb. 16, 1875. 

HOWARD'S POND. 

g 1. All persons are forbidden to take trout, in any manner, from Howard's 
pond, in the town of Uanover, county of Oxford, for the term of five j'ears 
fi'om the passage of this act, under a penalty of f 5 for each trout so taken. — 
Act of Feb. 22, 1875. 

TROUT IN THE ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER. 

g 1. The yearly closetime for the taking of trout in the tributaries of the 
Androscoggin river, above the outlet of Umbagog lake, shall be four and one- 
half months, commencing on the 15th day of October and ending on the 1st 
day of March, during which time no trout shall be taken or killed in any man- 
ner, under a penalty and fine as prescribed in section 38, chapter 40, of the 
Revised Statutes. 

§ 2. This act is not to apply to blue back trout, nor to any person taking 
fish on his own premises for the purpose of cultivation. — Act of Feb. 14. 1873. 

WORTHLY POND AND BROOK. 

Fish are not to be taken from these waters, in the town of Poland, Andros- 
coggin county, between the 1st of April and the 15th of June, and between 
October 1st and November 30, under a fine of $5 for each offense. Act of Feb. 
16, 1872. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



BIRDS AND PUR-BEARING ANIMALS, 

2 1. No person shall in any way destroy, between the 1st day of April and the 
15th day of October in each year, any miuk, otter, beaver, sable, or fisher, under 
a penalty of $25 for each animal so destroyed. 

g 2. No person shall, in any way, destroy, between the 1st day of May and 
the 1st day of October each j'ear, any muskrat, under a penalty of $5. 

§ 3. No person shall take, kill, or destroy any of the animals known as hares, 
between the 1st day of Mai'ch and the 1st day of October of each year, under 
penalty of $5. 

§ 4. No person shall expose poison for the destruction of animals, or any 
other purpose, under a penalty of $oU. 

§ 6. If any person shall, between the 1st day of February and the 4th day of 
July in any year, take, kill, or destroy any woodcock, or shall, between the 1st 
day of February and the 1st day of August of each year, take, kill, or destroy 
any of the birds called plover, yellow-legs, sandpipers, or rails, or shall, be- 
tween the 1st day of February and the 1st day of September of each year, take, 
kill, or destroy any ruffed grouse, partridges or quails ; or shall, within the 
respective times aforesaid, sell, buy, or have in possession any of said birds, he 
shall forfeit for eacli bird so taken, killed, destroyed, bought, sold, or had in 
possession, the sum of $10. 

§7. No person shall at any time or place within this State, take any grouse, 
partridge or quail, with any trap or snare, under penalty of $10, except upon 
his own grounds. 

g 9. Section three of chapter CCLI of the general statutes is hereby repealed, 
together with all other acts inconsistent herewith. — Appealed July 2, Ibl-k. 

GAME AND FISH. 

§ 1. If any person shall, at any time between the 1st day of January and the 
1st day of August in any year, by shooting, trapping, or otherwise, kill or de- 
stroy any deer, he shall forfeit for every such offense the sum of $25. 

g g 2 and 3. Repealed. 

g 4. Any person owning or occupying land may forbid the destruction of 
birds, on the same, at any season of the year, by public notice in any newspaper 
published in the county, or by posting notice on the land ; and any person tak- 
ing or destroying birds on said land, in defiance of said prohibition, sliall be 
subject to a penalty of $1 for each bird so destroyed, in addition to the pen- 
alties named in the proceeding section. 

§ 5. If any person shall, without right, at any time, take, catch, kill or de- 
stroy in any manner, any fish, or the roe, spawn or fry of the same placed in 
any pond, stream, spring, or other place prepared for the purpose of breeding, 
rearing or fattening the same, or shall break down any dam, embankment, or 
other bounds to any such pond or preserve, or shall alter or change the volume, 
current, or course of the water running through or supplying such pond or pre- 
serve, or shall in any way defile or pollute such water, or shall place in any 
such pond or preserve, any fish, or the roe, spawn, or fry of the same, without 
permission of the owner thereof, he sliall for each offense be fined not exceeding 
$20, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both, one half of the fine to 
the use of the complainant, 

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Maine Central Railroads, 

GREAT THROUGH LIHE I 



AND 



TO 



PORTLAND, BANGOR, MT. DESERT, 

AND ALL PARTS OF MAINE, 

TSE BRITISH PROVINCES, 

MOOSEHEAD LAKE, 

Rangeley, Richardson, Umbagog, 
S'ebago & Winnipiseogse Lakes, 

NORTH CONWAY and GORHAM, N. H., 

THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, 

MONTREAL, QUEBEC and THE WEST. 

Close Conneclions at Portland, 

With all Eastern Steamers, Grand Trunk Railway, Portland and 
Ogdensburgh, and Portland and Rochester Railroads. 

Boston Passenger Station, 

CAUSEWAY STREET, 

{Opposite Friend Street,) 

GEORGE BACHELDER, Supt. 



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§ 6. No person shall at any time take, catch, kill, or destroy, any trout, sal- 
mon trout, pickerel, pike, or muscalonge, in any river, stream, pond, or other 
water in this State, in any other manner, or by any other means, than angling 
with hooks and lines. 

§ 7. No person shall, under the penalties of this act, take, catch, kill or de- 
stroy any trout, or salmon trout, in any stream, pond or other waters of this 
State in September, October or November, in any year; or take, catch, kill or 
destroy any pickerel, pike, or maskinonge therein in the months of December, 
January, February, March, April, or May in any year. [As amended Juno, 
1868.] 

§ 8. Repealed, June, 1868. 

§ 9. No person shall, by means of weirs, seines, stake or set nets,or any similar 
device used in the waters of the Piscataqua I'iver, or of the great bay or any of 
their tributaries, catch or kill any smelts or bass of less than twelve inches in 
length, or any half-grown perch. 

§ 10. No person except the owners of the surrounding land shall take, kill, or 
destroy any fish in that part of the Amoonoosuc river, or its tributaries in 
Crawford's, Grant, Nash & Sawyer's location, and the Bralrook farm, so called, 
in the town of Carroll; or in Glen's ford, so called in Green's Grant, or in 
Prolific Lake, in Franconia Notch, and Echo Lake, in Franconia, and 
its tributaries, including the small pond on the opposite side of the road. 
[As amended June, 1868.] 

g 11. No person shall take or catch fish in the waters of Humphrey's Pond, 
in Winchester, in the county of Cheshire, except in the months of June, July 
and August. [As amended June, 1868.] 

§ 12 No person shall spear or wantonly destroy any fish in the waters of said 
pond during the period of ten years, from July 12, 1864. 

§ 13. Expired by limitation. 

§ 14. Any person who shall take, catch, kill or destroy any fishcoHtrary to 
the provisions of the proceeding sections, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $10 
for each fish so by him taken, caught, or destroyed. 

2 15. All nets, seines, fishing tackle, spears, or other implements used in 
catching or taking fish in violation of this chapter, shall be forfeited, and may 
be seized by any fish-ward, constable, or selectman. 

§ 16. Possession of fish, during the time when the taking of them is prohibit- 
ed by this chapter, shall bo deemed prima yacie evidence against the possessor 
of catching or taking in violation of law. 

§ 17. No person, not a citizen of this State and resident therein, shall take by 
seine or net, any fish called herrings or hard heads, in any waters within the 
jurisdiction of this State for the purpose of salting or barreling the same. 

^ IS. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the proceeding section, 
shall forfeit for each offense a sum not less than $20 nor more than $50. 

§ 19. Any net or seine set or used for the purpose of taking such fish, shall be 
forfeited to any person who may take or sue for the same. 



I 21. Repealed June, 1868. 

§ 22. If any person shall take, kill, or destroy, in any other way (manner), or 
by any other means than by angling with hooks and lines, any fish in the 
waters of Spofford's lake, in the Chesterfield, or be found upon the waters of 
said lake with implements used in taking or destroying fish, other than hooks 
and lines, he shall be fined not exceeding $20 or be imprisoned not exceeding 
thirty days. 

§ 23. Expired by limitation 

§ 24. Repealed June, 1868. 



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BETTER PROTECTION OF TROUT, 

2 1. No person shall catch, kill, or destroy any trout or salmon trout in any 
brook, river, stream, pond, or other waters of this State, excepting Sunapoe 
lake, Winnesquam lake, Squam lake, Newfoundland hike, first and second Con- 
necticut lakes, and Winnipisaukee lake, and Ford pond in Warren, during the 
months of September, October, November, December, January, February, March 
or April in any year. 

g 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall forfeU for each trout 
or salmon trout so caught, killed or destroyed, the sum of $10, one half of 
which shall be for the use of the complainant, and the other half for the use 
of the county in which said offense shall be committed. 

§ 3. This act shall not be construed to apply to any waters in which any per- 
sons have now by law the exclusive right to take, catch, kill, and destroy trout 
and salmon trout. 

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are 
hereby repealed. — Approved July 4, 1872. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Parties who have been in the habit of visiting the Upper Dam 
each summer, will be pleased to learn that an ice-house has been 
built there the past winter, an improvement that will be appreci- 
ated by all who stop there. The house has been well stocked with 
ice and there will be no trouble this season, in sending trout home 
from the Upper Dam. 



While on a flying trip through the Lake Region in April, the 
author met with a gentleman who superfntended the building of 
the Upper Dam, and thoroughly understands its structure. He 
says, that it is so constructed, that should any leak happen under- 
neath, the stones with which the piers are ballasted would drop 
down into the holes worn by the water and stop the leak. Also 
that the strength of the Dam is fully equal to any strain that can 
be brought to bear on it, and that in order to get an idea of the 
consequences of a "break," one spring, all the gates were lifted 
half up, with a full head of water on. The water started from 
the Dam in a volume of about twelve feet deep and a hundred 
feet wide. The result of the experiment was, that the two Rich- 
ardson Lakes, which are below the Upper Dam were filled, the 
water flowing back into the woods, at a depth in some places of 
four feet. The surplus poured over the Middle Dam at the foot 
of the Richardson Lakes, without starting a timber, filled the 
Umbagog Lake, and flowed through the Errol Dam at the foot of 
Umbagog, without causing but little inconvenience, and no dam- 

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age. What averts the danger in case of the Upper Dam ever giv- 
ing away is that the lakes being separated, there would be so 
much water lost in flowing back, as to materially lessen the force 
and depth of the body of water in motion, and hence no such 
disastrous result as we have imagined on page 39, could possibly 
happen. 

The city of Lewiston is now negotiating with the lumber com- 
pany, for the purchase of the dams, and the control of the water 
in the Richardson and Rangeley Lakes, in oixler to regulate the 
water supply for manufacturing purposes at Lewiston and Auburn. 
The bargain will doubtless be consumated before this book is 
issued. If this sale should be effected, the trout-fishing would be 
materially improved, and transportation across the chain of lakes 
much facilitated, for the reason that the city would keep the 
water in the lakes at a regular height the entire season, instead 
of drawing it all down to the bottom of the gates as the Lumber 
Company does now. For the benefit of sportsmen and fishermen, 
therefore, we hope the transfer will be made. 



The route to the Uj^per Dam from Indian Rock has been de- 
scribed in the main part of the book, as formerly made in a row 
boat. The past winter Captain Howard has built a new steamer, 
28 feet long, and 9 feet beam, to run on the Great Lake between 
Indian Rock and the Upper Dam. This facilitates the travel 
across the lakes very much, and the fare from the head of Range- 
ley Lake to the Upper Dam and return has been fixed at the low 
price of $3.00. The boat starts from the foot of Indian Rock, 
connecting with the steamer on Rangeley Lake, and makes a reg- 
ular trip each day, to and from the Upper Dam. AYhen the boat 
is not running on regular trips she can be hired at a reasonable 
price for excursions. The placing of a steamer on this lake en- 
ables the tourist to make excursions up Cupsuptic Lake and Cup- 
suptic River, and good fishing will be found on the latter stream. 



Parties visiting the lakes by the way of Farmington, who like 
to have a good rod to fish with, should stop over night at Farm- 
ington and visit Mr. Wheeler's store. This gentleman manufac- 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 115 



tures the finest fishing rods we have ever seen ; they are made of 
split bamboo, and finished off with German silver mountings. 
They are extremely light, only weighing from six to eight ounces. 
Mr. Wheeler has had a long experience in the business, and 
makes rods for the best dealers in fishing tackle in Boston and New 
York. If you want a first-class rod at a reasonable price, and 
one you can depend on every time, give him a call, or send an 
order by mail. 

Groveton, N. H., a village on the Grand Trunk Railroad, only 
half a mile from the junction with the Boston, Concord and Mont- 
real road, is a very pleasant place in which to spend a few weeks. 
There is a good hotel here, situated but a step from the depot, 
which offers excellent accommodations. There are charming views 
in the vicinity of the house, many pleasant drives, and the hunt- 
ing and trout-fishing is good. The Percy Teaks, within a short 
ride of the hotel, are outlying spurs of the White Mountains, and 
are well worth a visit from tourists. 

Lancaster is but ten miles from Groveton, and it is a pleasant 
days' excursion to drive there and back. 



One of the prettiest places in New England to spend a few weeks 
in summer, is the charming village of Colebrook, N. H. It sets 
on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River, with Mount Mo- 
nadnock directly opposite, in the adjoining state of Vermont. It 
is in the centre of some of the finest drives in New England, 
North Stratford, Canaan, Columbia, Dixville Notch, Connecticut 
Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. Diamond Pond, a great place for 
successful trout-fishing, being all within easy driving distance. 

It is a thriving little town, and a good deal of business is done 
there. A daily mail, telegraph, and line of stages connect 
it with other towns and cities. The buildings are all neat and 
well-constructed, there is a bank, two printing offices, a Repub- 
lican and Democratic paper, both weekly, and a large number of 
stores, representing every variety of business. There are two 
hotels, both eligibly situated on the main street. The better 
known of the two, the Parsons House, is kept by Mr. E. F. Bailey, 



116 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

a gentleman well-known to the traveling public, and one who 
understands how to run a hotel, in every acceptance of the term. 
This house commands a fine view of Mount Monadnock, which 
frowns down i;pon it from just across the Connecticut River. Mr. 
Bailey has had a good foot-path bushed out to the top of this 
mountain, and as it overlooks the Connecticut Valley for many 
miles, a clamber to its summit, will enable one to pass a day most 
enj oyably . 

Connecticut Lake, one of the finest sheets of water in New Eng- 
land, is situated twenty-six miles north of the Parsons House, 
and is approached over a broad, level road, making easy driving 
the entire distance. There is a good hotel at the lake, also row 
and sail boats. A very pleasant drive may also be made by driving 
down the river four miles from the hotel, crossing at that point, 
and driving back on the Vermont side, re-crossing the river a few 
rods from the hotel. 

For families who are looking for a desirable place in which to 
spend the summer months, we know of none more pleasant and 
healthy, or more likely to please. 

The Parsons House has many desirable rooms, and an excellent 
table is set there, two requisite very agreeable to summer board- 
ers. 

An excellent livery stable is connected with the house, thus as- 
suring guests of a good team at all times, without any trouble. 



Berlin Falls, N. H. This pretty little village is the next 
station on the Grand Trunk Railroad above Gorham, and six 
miles distant. It is the head-quarters of the Berlin Mills Co., 
of Portland, Maine, and a large amount of lumber is manufac- 
tured here every year, which is sent all over the world. 

No village in the Mountain or Lake Region furnishes more 
charming views than does this. Nestled right in among the hills, 
it commands a lovely landscape whichever way you turn. The 
ride down to Gorham is lovely, the road running near the river 
the whole way, and this beautiful and spirited stream of water 
divides your attention with the White Mountains, whose jpeaks 
cleave the sky but a few miles beyond. 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 117 

The Androscoggin River between Gorliani and Milan, probably 
furnishes the finest cataract scenery and water views to be met 
with in New England. In the entire distance between the two 
places we have named, it is a swift powerful stream, continually 
broken by cascades, and rapids and falls, and in no place is it 
tame. The banks of the stream also, are in sympathy with the 
tumultuous waters that sing hoarsely by night and day, along 
their base. Bold and rocky, sometimes narrowed to a few feet of 
space, then spreading out to a width of several rods, they still 
present their hard and jagged sides to the whirling waters. 

There is a neat little Hotel at Berlin Falls, kept by Mr. M. C. 
Forist, known as the Mount Forist House and it will be found a 
very pleasant place to pass a few weeks. Another new hotel is 
being talked oflF but nothing definite in the matter was known at 
the time we were there. 

There is excellent trout-fishing but a short distance from the 
Hotel, and lovers of this fascinating sport, have here every chance 
for the enjoyment of it. 



Parties visiting Colebrook will find at the store of Wm. Joslyn 
& Co., a fine assortment of Fishing Tackle, and other goods useful 
to the tourist and sportsman. These gentlemen are pleasant and 
agreeable to trade with, and their goods may be depended on. 



Since the main part of this book was written, a new enterprise 
has been started, which will greatly facilitate travel across the 
Ptichardson and Pangeley Lakes. A new steamer has been con- 
tracted for and is now being built to run on the two Richard- 
son Lakes, Welokennebacook and Molechunkamunk, and 
will make her first regular trip on Saturday, July 1st. She 
will run so as to connect with the steamer on lake Umbagog, and 
the two steamers on the lakes above the Upper Dam. She will 
ply between the Upper and Middle Dams, and the Arm op 
THE Lake, and will also be let to Excursion Parties. The boat 
is 42 feet long, 10 feet beam, a screw propeller, has roomy cabin 
and standing rooms, and the hull is built of the very best mater- 
ial to be obtained. She has a pair of Vertical Engines, the cyl- 



118 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

inders 6x6 inches, rated at 12 liorse power, but capable of being 
increased to 35. Her boiler is steel, constructed on the best 
principles for safety. The machinery has been constructed by 
Messrs. J. 11. Paine of Boston, and S. 11. Robinson of East Boston, 
both well known for the excellence of their work. The hull is built by 
Mr. Charles Harrington of Bath, Me., one of the most successful 
boat builders in the State, from model and plans made and drawn 
by II. B. Simmons, Esq., of Charlestown, who has had large ex- 
perience in his branch of business at the Charlestown Navy Yard. 
The entire cost of the boat will be $2,000, and for speed, safety, 
and comfort, it is believed she will compare favorably with any 
boat in the state. 

The completion, and placing on the Richardson Lakes of this 
fine Steam Yacht, opens a new era in the lake travel. Now, it is 
possible for one to travel across the entire six lakes in a day, and 
ladies can visit the lakes this summer with increased pleasure and 
ease. The hard pulling in a rough sea against head winds, the 
vexatious delays, the annoyance of leaky boats, can be entirely 
done away with, and the hauling of l)oats across the carries, which 
has always been an expensive nuisance will become a thing of the 
past. For time table of the steamer's trips, and fares, see adver- 
tisement elsewhere in this book. 



Black Flies, Minges, and Mosquitoes, are to be met with in the 
Rangeley Lake Region the latter part of June and the first part of 
July. By taking with you a preparation of Sweet Oil and Tar, 
and annointing your face and hands, you will generally escape 
their importunities. The only time that they are really trouble- 
some, is on a very still day or night. Where there is any wind 
at all they will not trouble you. Persons camping out, generally 
build up a " smudge " at night which frees them from the attacks 
of these insects. Ladies visiting the lakes in "fly time " will do 
well to wear a thick veil and long kid gauntlets in addition to 
their other clothing. There is only about a month, from the mid- 
dle of June to the middle of July, that flies and minges are trou- 
blesome, and any person who has visited the lakes once, can very 
easily keep clear of them, and they have this to console them, that 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON- LAKES. 119 

these insects in Maine, are not near as plenty, nor half so vora- 
cious as they are in the Adirondack Region. As ladies may not 
think that tar and oil would improve their complexion, (although 
it is a fact that it makes the skin soft and white after its use) 
we would inform them that Oil of Pennyroyal and Sweet Oil prop- 
erly mixed, is fully as good as the other preparation. We speak 
from practical experience, having frequently used it. Any drug- 
gist can prepare it for you, and the cost is a mere trifle. 



Good Fishing Tackle is one of the great desideratums of those 
piscatorially inclined, and sportsmen visiting the woods of Maine, 
are reminded that the old and well known house of Messrs. Brad- 
ford & Anthony, 874 Washington Street, Boston, offers every in- 
ducement for people who wish for goods in their line. They have 
the largest and best stock of goods for fishermen and tourists, of 
any concern in the city. The Fishing-Tackle Department is in 
charge of Mr. Prouty, a gentleman, well known to many of our 
sportsmen, and who being an ardent disciple of "Oldlzark" him- 
self, understands the wants of his customers, and is always ready 
to impart any information on the subject of flies, rods, and hooks, 
that may be of use to the inexperienced fisherman. 



The author of this book will spend the summer in the Lake PtC- 
gion, accompanied by a first class artist, and many more engrav- 
ings will be made for the edition of 1877. If any part of the work 
is incorrect or incomplete, such additions or corrections will be 
made during the present season, that will enable the publishers to 
make the work for 1877 as near perfect, as such a volume can be 
expected. The book as it is issued, will be found reliable, and 
correct in most things mentioned. 



CHAPTER XXVIIT. 



pi&t of ''St^UUt '^uomni^Mim^, mxA W^'*iU^. 



ANDOVER HOUSE, Axdover, Maine, Albert W. Thomas, Tro- 
prietor. Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 
per week. Accommodates 50 guests. 

BRAGG' S HOTEL, Errol, N. H., Wm. W. Bragg, Proprietor. 
Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 
Accommodates 30 guests. 

BERLIN MILLS HOUSE, Magalloway River, N. H., Berlin 
Mills Co., Proprietors. Terms, §2.00 per day, transient, 
$7.00 to $10.00 per week. Accommodates 40 guests. 

BiVRDEN HOUSE, Phillips, Maine, Samuel W. Farmer, Pro- 
prietor. Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 
per week. Accommodates 50 guests. 

CAMP KENNEBAGO, Indian Rock, Maine, 0. T. Richardson, 
Superintendent. Terms, $2.00 per day. Accommodates 50 
guests. 

DIX HOUSE, Dixville Notch, N. H., George Parsons, Propri- 
etor. Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 per 
week. Accommodates 40 guests. 

FOREST HOUSE, Farmington, Maine, J. S. Milliken, Proprietor. 
Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 
Accommodates 50 guests. 

KIMBALL'S HOTEL, Greenvale, Maine, Henry T. Kimball, 
Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 

per week. Accommodates 40 guests. 

(120) 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 121 

LAKE HOUSE, Upton, Maine, H. R. Godwin, Proprietor. 
Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 
Accommodates 40 guests. 

MOUNTAIN VIEW HOUSE, Rangeley Outlet, Maine, Henry 
T. Kimball, Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per day. Accommo- 
dates 50 guests. 

MELCHER HOUSE, Groveton, N. H., Canning J. Hatch, Pro- 
prietor. Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 
per week. Accommodates 50 guests. 

MIDDLE DAM CAMP, Lower Richardson Lake, Maine, H. R. 
Godwin, Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per day. Accommodates 
40 guests. 

PARSONS HOUSE, Colebrook, N. H., E. F. Bailey, Proprietor. 
Terms, $2.00 per day, transient, $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 
Accommodates 75 guests. 

UPPER DAM CAMP, Upper Richardson Lake, Maine, Thomas 
McCard, Superintendent. Terms, $2.00 per day. Accom- 
modates 50 guests. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



3i'^U^ ^^ J«v^ ^««t 3o\\U Wxi\r (^xtux^lmx WnM^. 



New York to Boston, all rail, 


$ 6.00 


(< 


" boat and cars, 


4.00 


BostoE 


L to Portland, boat, ...... 


1.00 


(< 


" cars, ..... 


8.00 




Bryants Pond, ...... 

Bethel, . . . * . 


4.50 
4.85 


(( 


Gorham, ....... 


5.50 


( i 


Groveton, ...... 


6.50 


i i 


North Stratford, 


7.20 


i I 


Farmington, ...... 

Phillips, . 

Greenvale, 


5.25 
6.75 
8.75 


li 

i i 
i ( 


Rangeley Outlet, ..... 

Upper Dam, via Phillips, 

Andover, ....... 


9.75 

. 10.25 

5.00 


ti 


Middle Dam, via Andover, 


9.00 


(( 


Upper Dam, via Andover, . . 


10.00 


<( 


Dixville Notch, via Colebrook, 


9.20 


North Stratford to Colebrook, ..... 


1.00 


Colebrook to Dixville Notch, ..... 


1.50 


<< 


Errol Dam, 


8.00 


Bethel to Upton, stage, 

Upton to the Inlet, steamer, 


2.50 
1.50 


(( 


Errol Dam, ...... 


1.50 


a 


Magalloway River, Steamboat Landing, 
(122) 


2.00 



RANGELEY AND RICHARDSON LAKES. 123 



Errol Dam to the Inlet, steamer, 1.00 

" Magallo way River, Steamboat Landing, . 1.00 

Steamboat Landing, Magalloway River to the Inlet, . 1.00 

Bryants Pond to Andover, stage, .... 1.50 

Andover to Arm of Lake, Thomas' teams, . . . 2.50 

Arm of Lake to Middle Dam, steamer, ... 75 

" ** Upper Dam, steamer, .... 1.50 

Middle Dam to Upper Dam, steamer, .... 1.00 

Farmington to Phillips, stage, ..... 1.50 

Phillips to Greenvale, stage, 2.00 

Greenvale to Rangeley Outlet, steamer, .... 1.00 

Indian Rock to Upper Dam, steamer, . . . 1.00 
Glen House, (White Mountains) to Andover. Stage to Gor- 

ham, rail to Bryants Pond, Stage to Andover, . . 3.75 
Glen House, (White Mountains) to Upton. Stage to Gorham, 

rail to Bethel, stage to Upton, .... 4.50 
Glen House, (White Mountains) to Dixville Notch. Stage to 
Gorham, rail to North Stratford, stage to Colebrook, 

Concord wagon to Notch, ...... 4.50 

The fares to many of the above places are largely reduced by 
purchasing 

to go and return by same route. We give the prices of Tickets 
over some of the most popular Excursion Routes. 
Boston to Andover, Me., and Return, cars and stage, . $ 9.00 
Boston to Richardson Lakes, and Return, via Andover, cars, 

stage, and Thomas' teams, ..... 13.00 

Boston to Middle Dam, (Anglers' Retreat) and Return, via 

Andover, cars, stage, Thomas' teams, and steamer, 15.00 

Boston to Upper Dam, Richardson Lakes, and Return, via 

Andover, cars, stage, Thomas' teams, and steamer, 16.00 

Boston to Bryants Pond, and Return, . . . 7.00 

'' Bethel, and Return, 7.00 

** Gorham, and Return, 8.00 



124 FARRAR'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 

Boston to Upton, Lake Umbagog, and Return, cars, stage, $13.00 
" North Stratford, and Return, rail, . . . 10.00 
'* Errol Dam, and Return, via Colebrook, . 17.00 

The above Excursion fares are by rail between Boston and Port- 
land. If travelers desire to go by Steamers, the fare will be $1.00 
less each way. 

New York to Portland, steamer, .....$ 5.00 
Boston to Farmington, and Return, .... 9.00 

" Phillips, and Return, rail and stage, . . 11.00 

" Greenvale, Rangeley Lake, and Return, rail, stage, 14.00 
** Upper Dam, and Return, via Phillips and Green- 
vale, cars, stage, and steamers, .... 17.00 



We have given the time of the starting of trains on the different 
Railroads correctly at the time we went to press. But as the time 
is liable to be changed during the summer, one should not depend 
altogether on our little volume for their train time. It is well be- 
fore starting on a summer trip to provide yourself with an accurate 
Railroad Guide, and the only one we can recommend as being al- 
ways reliable, is the Travelers' Official Guide, published by 
the National Ptailway Publication Co., Philadelphia, Pa. It is for 
sale at all news stands and Railroad Depots, also on the cars. 

The time of running of the Portland Steamers will not change 
at all this summer. The Steamers on the Lakes will also run all 
summer according to time specified in the Book. 



THE ROBINSON BOILER WORKS, 

(Successors to Maynard's Iron Works,) 

HEW STREET^ EAST BOSfOS, 



WAXUFAfTrRE ALL KIXDS OF 




PAYING ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO BEST CLASS OF WORK. 

MANUFACTURE ALSO 



THE HOBINSON BCILEH, 

Tlio safest, most durable, and most economical Steam Boiler in use. 

Robinson Surface CondGnsGr, 

For heating feed water by waste beat. Also, MARINE BOILERS, Oil and 
Water Tanks, Feeders for Water Wheels, SHIP TANKS made in the best 
manner at shortest notice. Also, BLEACHING KIERS. 

Address H. S. ROBINSON, Office, 28 State St., Boston. 



# 



# 



PHOTOERAPHER, 

247 WASHINGTON ST., 

BOSTON. 



A Specialty made of Out Door Views, 
Residences, Hotels, &c. Also of all kinds of 
Machinery, Furniture, Organs, Pianos, and 
all kinds of Goods. 



CHAPTER XXX. 

3mnt '^Miilmx^ U i\u djixnu ixm\ Ji.$It "g^mv^ of ^\i\m. 



TTOODCOCK AND RUFFED GROUSE. 

§ 1. No person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or hor possession 
afUT the same has been killed, any woodcock or ruffed grouse, commonly called 
partridge, except during the times and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, 
namely : Any person may, for the purpose of consumption as food -svithiu this 
State, lawfully kill, expose for sale, or have in possession any woodcock between 
the 1st day of September in any year and the 1st day of December following, 
both days inclusive ; or any ruffod gronso between the 1st day of September in 
any year and the 1st day of December following, both inclusive. 

§ 2. No person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in possession, except 
alive, at any time, any woodcock or ruffed grouse with the intention of sending 
or transporting, or of having the same sent or transported beyond the limits of 
the State, under penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $10 for each wood- 
cock or ruffed grouse thus killed, exposed for sale, or had in possession. 

3 3. Amends section 1 of chapter 239 of the laws of 1874, as printed below. 

I 4, SectioDS 4 and 5 of chapter 239 of public laws of 1874, are hereby made 
applicable, to this act, the same as they would have been had the proceeding 
sections of this act been incorporated in said act of 1874. — Approved Febi'uary 
18, 1876. 
WOODDUCK, ENGLISH SNIPE, RUFFED GROUSE, WOODCOCK, QUAIL, &c. 

§ 1. No person shall kill or have in his or her possession, except alive, or ex- 
pose for sale any woodduck, English snipe, or woodcock between the 1st day of 
December and the 1st day of September following; or kill any ruffed grouse, 
commonly called partridge, between the 5th day of December and the 1st day 
of September following, or have the same In possession, except alive, or expose 
for sale between the 5th day of December and the 1st day of September follow- 
ing, or kill, sell, or have in possession, except alive, any quail or pinnated 
grouse, commonly called prairie chicken, between the 1st day of January and 
the 1st day of September following, under a penalty of not less than $5 nor 
more than $10 for each bird so killed, or had in possession, or exposed for sale. 
— As amended by act approved February 18, 1876. 

MOOSE, DEER. AND CARIBOU. 

§ 9. No person shall hunt or kill with dogs, any moose, deer, or caribou on 
any lands in this State under the penalty of $40 for every such moose, deer, 
or caribou, so killed ; and no person shall between the 1st day of January and 
the 1st day of October, in any manner, hurt or kill any moose, deer, or caribou 
under the same penalties as above provided ; any person may lawfully shoot or 
otherwise kill any dog found hunting moose, deer or caribou; provided, that 
no person shall kill, or have in possession, except alive, at any time, any deer, 
with the intention of sending or transporting, or of having the same sent or 
transported beyond the limits of this State. — As amended by act approved Feb- 
ruary 18, 1876. 

(125) 



126 FARRARS ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 



§ 13. If any person has in his possession, the carcass or hide, or any such 
animal, between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of October, he shall be 
deemed to have hunted and killed the same contrary to law and be liable to the 
penalties aforesaid ; but he shall not be precluded from producing proof in de- 
fence. In case of his conviction, such carcass or hide, or any part therof, so 
found in his possession, shall be decreed by the court, forfeited to the use of the 
person prosecuting. And the warden, or either of his deputies as named in sec- 
tion 12 of this chapter, shall have power to search for such carcass or hide, or 
any part thereof, subject to the provisions of sections 12, 13 and 14, of chapter 
132 of the revised statutes, but the warrant may be issued on complaint of 
said warden or either of his deputies. — As amended by act approved February 1, 
1876. 

LAND-LOCKED SALMON, TROUT, BLACK BASS, AND OSWEGO BASS. 

g 1. There shall bo an annual close-time for land-locked salmon, commonly 
so called, trout, black bass and Oswego bass, in all the waters of this State, as 
follows, viz: for land-locked salmon, from the 15th day of September to the 1st 
day of March following; for trout, from tho 1st day of October to the 1st day 
of March following; and for black bass and Oswego bass, from the 1st day of 
April to the 1st day following. 

§ 2. No person shall at any time catch, take, kill or fish for any land-locked 
salmon, trout, black bass or Oswego bass, by means of any grapnel,spear, trawl, 
weir, net, seine, trap, set line, either through the ice, or otherwise, or with any 
device or in any other way than by the ordinary way of hand fishing with a 
single baited hook and line, or with artificial flies, under a penalty of not less 
than $10 nor more than $30 for each offense, and a further fine of $1 for each 
fish so caught, taken or killed. And all set lines, grapnels, spears, trawls,wiers, 
nets, seines, traps and devices other than fair angling as aforesaid, are hereby 
prohibited on fresh water lakes, ponds and streams of this State ; and when 
found in use or operation on said lakes, ponds or streams, they are hereby de- 
clared forfeit and contraband, and any person finding them in use in said waters 
are hereby authorized to destroy the same. 

§ 3. No person shall catch, take, kill, expose for sale or have in possession, 
except alive, any land-locked salmon between the 15th day of September ancl 
the 1st day of March following ; or any trout between the 1st day of October 
and the 1st day of March following; or any black bass or Oswego bass between 
the 1st day of April and the Ist day of June following, under a penalty of not 
less than $10 nor more than $30, and a further fine of one dollar for each fish 
thus caught, taken, killed, exposed for sale or in possession, except as aforesaid. 

g 4. All penalties imposed under the provisions of this act may be recovered 
as provided for in section 5, chapter 239 , laws of 1874. — Approved February 23, 
1876. 



NOTE. 

As we go to press we learn that the proposed telegraph line be- 
tween Bryants Pond and Andover is now being built, and will be 
completed at once, bringing this Delightful Summer Resort into 
immediate connection with Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and 
all large cities the present summer. This was the only thing 
needed to make AndoYer one of the most Popular Summer Resorts 
in New England. • 



RANGELEY AND RTCnARDSON LAKES. 127 

Sportsmen procuring specimens of birds, fish, or animals, and 
wishing them preserved by a skillful taxidermist, are referred to 
the advertisement of Arthur J. Colburn, which will be found in 
this book. Mr. C. has been very successful in preserving trout, 
and several were treated by him last year, one of which weighed 
nearly 9 pounds, and was caught in Mooselucmaguntic Lake. Ilis 
Establishment we can vouch for as having all the facilities for 
doing good work. His workshop is on the same floor with his 
store, hence specimens are taken care of, immediately on being 
received. Those interested in the pursuit of Natural History 
should visit his store, and look at his fine collection of birds and 
animals. You will be amply repaid for the time spent. 

ESTABLISHED HACK FARES IN BOSTON. 
For one or more adult passengers within the City Proper, or 
from one place to another within the limits of South Boston or of 
East Boston, Fifty Gents each. 

Between the hours of 11 P. M. and 7 A. M., the fare for one 
adult passenger shall be one Dollar. 

For two or more such passengers, Fifty Cents each. 

For one adult passenger, from any part of the City Proper, to 
either South Boston or East Boston, or from East Boston or South 
Boston to the City Proper, One Dollar. 

For two or more such passengers, between such points, Seventy- 
Five Cents each. 

For children between four and twelve years of age, when ac- 
companied by one adult, one half of the above sums ; and for 
children under four years of age, when accompanied by an adult, 
no charge is to be made. 

By order of the Board of Aldermen. 

S. F. McCLEARY, City Clerk. 

BAGGAGE.— One Trunk, a Valise, Box, Bundle, Carpet-Bag, 

Basket, or other article used in traveling, sliall be free of charge ; 

but for each additional Trunk, or other articles. Five Cents shall 

be paid. 

Horse Car Conveyance. — Persons who travel light, i. e, with 
little baggage, can save Hack Fare in Boston by taking the Horse 
Cars, which now run to all the depots, and to the wharf of the 
Portland steamers. 



TO ALL LOVEBS OF MUSIC! 

There haa just lieen published a largo book, (sheet music size plates,) contain- 
ing 2:24 pages of the choicest and latest songs and piano pieces, which is sold 
for tho low price of $2.50. 

Thia Book is entitled 

and contains (araonj; other pieces,) the Tery popular songs: "Little Sweet Heart, 
Come and Kiss Mo!" "No more Erown Juga for Me I" "Bring Back Our Dar- 
lingl" •• Maid of Athens! " "Killarneyl" " Little Sunshine 1 " "You'll Nev- 
er Miss the Water till the WellRuns Dry I " " Silver Hair that once was Qoldl" 
" I Wish Blarama was Here 1 " and many other vocal gems. Tho Instrumental 
contents include "Tripping thro' the Meadows I" "Battle of Bunker Hilll" 
" Inman Line March I " "Little Sweet Heart WaltE I " " Lotta's Favorite Noc- 
turne 1 " " gpelling Match Waltz! " "March of Priests I " "Joyous Farmer 1 " 
and many other favorite pieces. 

Every song in the " Music At Home " Is a good one, and every plan© piece is 
a favorite. 

"MUSIC AT HOME" 

is the best and cheapept collection of Music ever published. Every singer or 
pianist will SAVE MONEY by getting it at once. 

"MUSIC AT HOME" 

Costs only $2.50. Every Music dealer will order it for you, or you can send the 
money direct to tho Publisher and receive the Book, post paid, by return of mail. 

I^OTJI® r. OOTJIL.LA-TJr>, 

86 TREMONT S TREET BOSTON, MASS. 

VIOLIN PLAYERS, ATTENTION! 
l-dLO NEW AND ORIGINAL Clog Hornpipes, Reels, Walk-Arounds, Scotch 
and Irish Reels and Jiga, Struthspoys, &c., for the Violin. By Geo. H. Goes. 

LOUIS P. 60ULLAUD, Publisher, 86 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 
4®- Sent postpaid for 75 cts. 

PATENT CHIN REST, 

FOR VIOLIN AND VIOLA. 

SEIsTT BIT HVCA-IL, IPOSTIPJLIID, $2-50 

THE BEST, FIEMEST AND 

Mojst Durable Music Stand, 

EVER. I]^VE1VTEI>. 

:i?rioe, S3.00 eacU. 630.00 per doaon. 

OPENS AND CLOSES LIKE AN UMBRELLA. 

Will be sent to any address on receipt of price. Send money by post-offlc© order 
or registered letter, at our risk. All orders should be sent to 

LOUIS P. GOULLAUD, 86 Tremont Street, Boston. 



■VISIT THE 











AND 



RICHAR 

' ' .r^ lE^ -tU S J 




-VIA- 



EASTERN RAILROAD. 

PULL3IAN PALACE CARS 

ON ALL THROUGH TRAINS. 



^SC^fif s so$»$> 



BY EITHER THE 



BETHEL, BRKAIITS FQHD, Oli FlliitillllGTOII 



ROUTES 



Roimd Trip Tickets, 

TO GO AND RETURN EITHER WAY, 
For Sale at Eastern B. JR. Depots 

CAUSEWAY STREET, opp. Friend St., BOSTON. 



H. L. DUNOZLEE'S 

IE^_A- T IE IN" T 

CAMPING and MIHIHG STOYE. 




I»ateiited Jixnc 33, 1875. 

Outside dimensions, packed, 12x12x20 in. 

Weighing only 35 pounds, yery durable, will cook for ten persons, and is es- 
pecially adapted for camping purposes. The ware consists of 8 qt. kettle, 6 qt. 
tea kettle, 2 qt. coffee pot, fry pan, round tin pan, 2 square pans, dipper, gridiron 
tent collar, 8 ft. funnel, and an oven that will roast 15 pounds beef. 



Th« ware is so constructed that it nests and packs in the oven, and the oven 
and funnel pack inside the store, as represented in cut 2, leaying room for pack- 
ing half a dozen plates, knives, forks, spoons, and drinking cups. Price, com- 
plete, $15.00. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 

H. L, DUKCKLEE, Box 2710, BOSTON, Mass. 

For sale at SPORTSMAN'S EMPORIUM, 17 Ann Street, New York City, and 
R. II. KILBY, 346 St. Paul Street, Montreal. Agents wanted in every town. 



JAMES H. PAINE, 

ENGINEER AND MACHINIST, 




YACHT, LAVNCH AND STATIONARY 

STEAM ENGINES. 

Best of Materials ! Thorough Workmanship ! Reasonable Prices ! 
No. 36 CHARLESTOWN STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



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IMPORTERS OF AND DEALERS IN 



Double and Single Guns, comprising every variety and make, 

muzzle-loading and breech-loading, and all articles pertaining to 

them. A GOOD ENGLISH BREECH-LOADING DOUBLE GUN 

For S35.00, and. tip^vards, 

ALL THE BEST BREECH-LOADERS, 

Westley Richard's, Scott's, Greener's, Rape's, Lancaster's, W. 
Richard's of Liverpool, Ellis', and all others. Also, the 
Remington, and other American makes. 
TVe make a specialty of W. & C. Scott & Son's Fine Breech- 
Loading Guns, which for fine, elegant finish, and close and strong 
shooting powers are believed superior to all others. 

FINE MUZZLE LOADERS, 

In great variety, for SNIPE, PLOVER, and DUCK SHOOTING, 
Bored to Shoot Close and Strong. 

4®=- At present time on hand a lot of 500 SHARP'S METALLIC CARTRIDGE 
BREECII-LOADINGr RIFLES, which on account of the present dull times will 
be sold at Retail for $10.00 each— are entirely new, and originally cost $20.00— 
for hunting or target purposes are very desirable.'^§L 



FISHING TACKLE, 

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 
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ANGLERS will find everything for Fishing of the most reliable qiiality, of all 
kinds and styles. RODS made of Split Bamboo, Greenheart, Lancewood, etc. 
REELS of Aliiniinnni, Oreide, Ebonite, etc. ARTIFICIAL FLIES for all 
waters, own patterns and dressing. Special FLIES made to order. Evert- 
THiNj that is new and choice in the way of FISHING TACKLE. 

TRAVELERS' ARTICLES such as Luncheon Baskets, Flasks, Telescopes, 
Pocket Compasses, etc. 

R AZO R S, DRESSING CASES, TRAVELING CASES, SPORTSMEN'S KNIVES. 

FANCY HARDWARE in endless variety. SMALL STEEL WARES. 

JVo. 374 Washitigton Street, opposite Bromfield Street, Boston. 

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